Edward M. Parker Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Edward Melville Parker
Honorific Suffix:D.D., D.C.L.
Bishop of New Hampshire
Church:Episcopal Church
Diocese:New Hampshire
Term:1914–1925
Retired:-->
Predecessor:William Woodruff Niles
Successor:John T. Dallas
Ordination:1881
Ordained By:William Woodruff Niles
Consecration:February 9, 1906
Consecrated By:William Woodruff Niles
Birth Date:July 11, 1855
Birth Place:Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Buried:Blossom Hill and Calvary Cemeteries
Nationality:American
Parents:Henry Melville Parker & Fanny Cushing Stone
Spouse:Grace M. Elmendorf
Isabella Goodrich
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Edward Melville Parker (July 11, 1855 - October 22, 1925) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Biography

Education

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Henry Melville Parker and Fanny Cushing (Stone) Parker.[1] He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire (1868-1874), and at Keble College, Oxford, England (B.A. 1878; M.A. 1881). He received a D.D. from the Berkeley Divinity School in 1906, and a D.C.L. from the Bishop's College (now Bishop's University) in Lennoxville, Quebec, in 1907.[2]

Career

He was ordained deacon in 1879 and priest in 1881. From 1879 to 1906, he was master of St. Paul's School. He was made bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire in 1906 and was bishop from 1914 until 1925, when he died suddenly during the General Convention of the church.[3] [4]

Marriage

He married Grace Elmendorf of Racine, Wisconsin, in 1885. She died in 1888.

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. 1917 . Parker, Edward Melville . Stowe's Clerical Directory of the American Church . 225.
  2. Marquis Who's Who (1960). Who was who in America, p. 507. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights, NJ.
  3. 1905 . Parker, Edward Melville . The Churchman . 92. 13.
  4. Web site: TIME . 1925-11-02 . At New Orleans . 2024-06-16 . TIME . en.