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Colonel Parker founded the Francis W. Parker School in 1901, with the support of benefactor Anita McCormick Blaine. Parker was born in Bedford, New Hampshire in Hillsborough County. He was educated in the public schools and began his career as a village teacher in New Hampshire at age 16.
Colonel Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997) [1] was a Dutch-American talent manager and concert promoter, best known as the manager of Elvis Presley. Parker was born in the Netherlands and entered the United States illegally when he was 20 years old. He adopted a new name and claimed to ...
Ely Samuel Parker (1828 – August 31, 1895), born Hasanoanda (Tonawanda Seneca), later known as Donehogawa, was an engineer, U.S. Army officer, aide to General Ulysses Grant, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in charge of the government's relations with Native Americans.
Died of disease in second year of the war [11] Asa W. Farr: October 6, 1863 42 Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1856–57) Democrat: Union: Lawyer Killed at the Battle of Baxter Springs [12] Daniel E. Frost: July 19, 1864 45 Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1861–62) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1859–61 ...
Nor did he ever suggest onstage that he knew of the colonel’s immigration issues. “He fully believed the colonel’s story that Parker hailed from Huntington, West Virginia; Elvis died not ...
Elvis took care of what Elvis did and Colonel took care of what Colonel did. He liked it that Elvis did what brought folks into the big tent. Listen, this guy was no fool!
Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.
John Parker was also the grandfather of reformer and abolitionist Theodore Parker. [2] John Parker's experience as a soldier in the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), at the Siege of Louisbourg and the conquest of Quebec, most likely led to his election as militia captain