Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ou and I mustgo to Austria, to Italy, or to Siberia forour freedom; or perish with the libertywhich our fathers fought for and secured to themselves—not to their faithless sons!Shall America thus miserably perish?Such is the aspect of things to-day! Parkhurst, Charles Henry, clergy-man ; born in Framingham, Mass., April17, 1842; graduated at Amherst in 1866;studied at Halle and Leipzig; becamepastor of the Madison Square Presbyte-rian Church, New York City, in 1880. In1891 he acc
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ou and I mustgo to Austria, to Italy, or to Siberia forour freedom; or perish with the libertywhich our fathers fought for and secured to themselves—not to their faithless sons!Shall America thus miserably perish?Such is the aspect of things to-day! Parkhurst, Charles Henry, clergy-man ; born in Framingham, Mass., April17, 1842; graduated at Amherst in 1866;studied at Halle and Leipzig; becamepastor of the Madison Square Presbyte-rian Church, New York City, in 1880. In1891 he accepted the presidency of the So-ciety for the Prevention of Crime. Therevelations made by the society led to aninvestigation of the New York police bythe State authorities in 1894. AmongDr. Parkhursts publications is Our Fightwith Tammany. Farkman, Francis, author; born inBoston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1823; graduatedat Harvard College in 1844, and fitted him-self for the legal profession, but soon aban-doned it. He made a tour of the RockyMountains, and lived for some time amongthe Dakota Indians. The hardships he. 69 FRANCIS PARKMAN. there endured caused a permanent im-pairment of his health, and through lifehe suffered from a chronic disease andpartial blindness. Notwithstanding thesedisabilities he long maintained a fore-most rank among trustworthy and accom-plished American historians. His chiefliterary labors were in the field of in-quiry concerning the power of the French,political and ecclesiastical, in North Amer-ica. So careful and painstaking were his PARKS IN THE UNITED STATES—PARLIAMENT labors that he was regarded as authorityon those subjects which engaged hispen. Mr. Parkmans first work was TheCalifornia and Oregon Trail, in whichhe embodied his experience in the FarWest. His first work on the French inAmerica was The Conspiracy of Pon^tiao (1851). It was followed by Pioneersof France in the New World (1865) ; TheJesuits in North America; The Discoveryof the Great
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