Edward M. Parker

The Right Reverend Edward Melville Parker D.D., D.C.L.
Bishop of New Hampshire
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	New Hampshire
In office	1914–1925
Predecessor	William Woodruff Niles
Successor	John T. Dallas
Orders
Ordination	1881 by William Woodruff Niles
Consecration	February 9, 1906 by William Woodruff Niles
Personal details
Born	July 11, 1855 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died	October 22, 1925(1925-10-22) (aged 70) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Buried	Blossom Hill and Calvary Cemeteries
Nationality	American
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Henry Melville Parker & Fanny Cushing Stone
Spouse	Grace M. Elmendorf Isabella Goodrich
Previous post(s)	Coadjutor Bishop of New Hampshire (1906-1914)

Edward Melville Parker (July 11, 1855 - October 22, 1925) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Biography[]

Education[]

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Henry Melville Parker and Fanny Cushing (Stone) Parker.^[1] He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire (1868-1874), and at Keble College, Oxford, England (B.A. 1878; M.A. 1881). He received a D.D. from the Berkeley Divinity School in 1906, and a D.C.L. from the Bishop's College (now Bishop's University) in Lennoxville, Quebec, in 1907.^[2]

Career[]

He was ordained deacon in 1879 and priest in 1881. From 1879 to 1906, he was master of St. Paul's School. He was made bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire in 1906 and was bishop from 1914 until 1925.^[3]

Marriage[]

He married Grace Elmendorf of Racine, Wisconsin, in 1885. She died in 1888.

See also[]

• Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

References[]

• Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). "Parker, Edward Melville" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company.
• John William Leonard; Albert Nelson Marquis (1910–1911). "Parker, Edward Melville". Who's Who in America. p. 1465.