| Theophilus Parsons | |||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1797 | ||||||||||
| Education: | Harvard College (1815) | ||||||||||
| Children: | Emily Elizabeth Parsons | ||||||||||
| Father: | Theophilus Parsons | ||||||||||
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Theophilus Parsons (1797–1882) was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870.
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 biography 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, Missouri.[2]
He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.[3]