Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . mar-ried Arthur Anthony. William H. Jennings died at his home. Fall River, Mass., in 1885. WALTER EDWARD PARKER. Walter Edward Parker was born in Princeton, Worcester County,Mass., Sept. 27, 1847; son of George and Emily R. (Coller) Parker;grandson of Ebenezer Parker, a farmer of Princeton, and of HezekiahColler, a Methodist preacher of Northfield, Mass., and a descendant ofThomas Parker,
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . mar-ried Arthur Anthony. William H. Jennings died at his home. Fall River, Mass., in 1885. WALTER EDWARD PARKER. Walter Edward Parker was born in Princeton, Worcester County,Mass., Sept. 27, 1847; son of George and Emily R. (Coller) Parker;grandson of Ebenezer Parker, a farmer of Princeton, and of HezekiahColler, a Methodist preacher of Northfield, Mass., and a descendant ofThomas Parker, a farmer who embarked at London, England, March 11,1635, with Sir Richard Saltonstall. with whose family he was connectedby marriage. Captain John Parker, who led a company of farmers inthe Battle of Lexington, 1775, and Theodore Parker, the eminent preacher,were of this family. George Parker was a farmer and manufacturer oftextile goods, and his son, Walter Edward Parker, was brought up inPrinceton, Mass.; Urbana, 111., and Woonsocket, R. I. He attended thepublic schools, became a clerk in a grocery store in Woonsocket, R. I., andin the Social Cotton Mill. He subsequently in 1876 accepted the super-. ? -fv > ?>- f-^Zl/A-ifS Ny
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