The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r of the firm of Caverly, Parker & Young at Lynn. In 1876 he cameto Worcester and was associated with his brother, John L. Parker, in themanufacture of sheet-metal goods at 70 School street. This business hecontinues, his brother having died several years ago. Mr. Parker has traveled extensively in this country and in Europe onbusiness and pleasure, and is a man of affairs and large experience. Heserved four years in the Common Council from 1887 to 1890 inclusive, andwas an alderman in 1891 and 1892, retiring with an enviab
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r of the firm of Caverly, Parker & Young at Lynn. In 1876 he cameto Worcester and was associated with his brother, John L. Parker, in themanufacture of sheet-metal goods at 70 School street. This business hecontinues, his brother having died several years ago. Mr. Parker has traveled extensively in this country and in Europe onbusiness and pleasure, and is a man of affairs and large experience. Heserved four years in the Common Council from 1887 to 1890 inclusive, andwas an alderman in 1891 and 1892, retiring with an enviable record for soundjudgment and straightforward action. In politics he is a Republican, andhas always been a consistent temperance man. As a candidate he proved avery popular man, receiving the highest number of votes on the ticket, andhe declined a renomination to public office, greatly to the regret of hissupporters. Mr. Parker married Miss Eva S. Jones of Lynn. In religion he is anEpiscopalian, and a prominent member of St. Johns Church. *See portrait on page. EDMUND L. PARKER. The Worcester of 1898. 709 Henry Langdon Parker,* a son of Asa and Margaret Ann (McCoristone)Parker, was born at Acton, Massachusetts, October 7, 1833. He waseducated at Lawrence Academ}-, Groton, and at Dartmouth College,graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1856. He studied lawand entered upon the practice of his profession in i860 in the town ofHopkinton. He was appointed a trial justice for Middlesex county in 1862,and held that ofHce until his removal to Worcester in 1865, in which city hehas for the past thirty-three years resided, and where he is well known asone of the most reliable and prominent members of the Worcester countybar. While devoted to his profession and closely applying himself to its demands,Mr. Parker has given some time to public service. From 1882 to 1888 hewas a member of the School Board of Worcester, where his influence wasfelt in all matters which contrib
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