Theophilus Parsons (professor)
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Theophilus Parsons | |
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| Born | 1797 |
| Died | 1882 (aged 84–85) |
| Education | Harvard College (1815) |
| Children | Emily Elizabeth Parsons |
| Father | Theophilus Parsons |
| Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School | |
| In office 1848–1870 | |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Columbus Langdell |
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.[1] In 1824, he took a position as editor of the new United States Literary Gazette.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.[5]
