Theophilus Parsons (professor)

Theophilus Parsons (1797–1882) was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870.

Portrait of Theophilus Parsons, by August Edouart, ca.1842

Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines. He wrote a life of his father, an American jurist, who was also named Theophilus Parsons (1749–1813). It was published in Boston in 1859.[1] He also edited and published the Civil War letters of his daughter, Emily Elizabeth Parsons, a nurse and administrator of Benton Barracks military hospital in St. Louis, Mo.[2]

He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.[3]

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References
  1. Chisholm 1911.
  2. Parsons, Theophilus and Parsons, Emily Elizabeth, 'Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Little Brown and Company (1880)
  3. Bryant, William Cullen; Voss, Thomas G. (1975). The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1809-1836. Fordham Univ Press. p. 16. ISBN 9780823209910. Theophilus Parsons harvard 1882 1815.
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