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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924 



■'Ipa'rkMAN-— At PhlUlpa HOUS9. Monday. Juns 

 ■ ''S Henry Parkman. P^nera-I servicss . »i> 

 ^ Tf'lptty ^Church 3.t_^12'o-clocli. Thur aday, ^W f.^ 



HENRY PARKMAN DIED 

 AT PHILLIPS HOUSE 

 MONDAY NIGHT 



Succumbed to Illness Which Was 

 Prolonged Through Sev- 

 eral Months I 



Henry Parktnan, treasurer since 1895, 

 of the Provident Institution for Savings 

 In Temole place and widely known in 

 Boston banking and business circles, di«d 

 last niffht at the Phillips House of the 

 Massa.chusetts General Hospital, after an 

 illness of three months. Mr. Parkman was 

 a. life-long resident of tliis city and was 

 descended on both his father's and his 

 mother's sides from early New iSngland 

 stocl-:. 



He V ; I , :;oston on May 23, 18.50, 



and I Br. Samuel Parkman 



and ; ight ] Parkman. His 



great j; i i.i ; v. aa St?nator Jonathan 

 Mason, who wiili Harrison Gray Otis, helped 

 to develop BeacofTHill as a residential sec- 

 tion. Senator Mason's htjme was In Mount 

 ■Vernon street, opposite Walnut .street. 



His paternal great-great-gi-andfather, 

 Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, was pastor of the 

 Westboro, for more than fifty 

 I er ance.stor of Mr. Parkman, 

 ■ r's side, was Governor Dud- 

 ley, L.r the early provincial governors 

 of Massachusetts before the Revolution. 



Mr. Parkman's father, as a young man, 

 was present and assisted at the first oper- 

 ation in which a patient was etherized at 

 the Massachusetts General Hospita.1. 



Educated at Harvard 



Mr. Parkn^an received his elementary 

 education at Chauncy Hall, also in Mr. 

 Dixwell's School and under private tu- 

 tors, after which he entered Harvard Col- 

 le^ge. During his college days he was 

 active in .social affairs, as a member 

 of the Hasty Pudding Club and of the ■ 

 Institute of 1T70. He was graduated in ' 

 1870, with the degree of A. B. Mr. Park- 

 man subsequently took up the study of law i 

 at the Harvard Law School and received 

 the degree of LL. B. in 1.ST3. He took a 

 master of arts degree the following year. 

 He entered the law office of Russell & 

 Putnam and was admitted to the bar In 

 June, 1874. 



He excelled while in college in the French 

 language, and after his graduation assisted 

 his father's cousin, Francis Parkman, the 

 historian. In the translation of old French 

 manuscripts. 



Mr. Parkman entered upon active prac- 

 tice and succeeded in building up a suc- 

 cessful law business. In 1879 he was a 

 member of the Common Council of Bos- 

 ton and was reelected to this office each 

 year iintii 1884. In 1886 he was a can- 



didate for the Massachusetts House of 

 Representatives, from Ward 9. He was 

 I elected by a. substantial vote and wrts re- 

 turned td office in 1887 and 18S.S. He 

 [served two terms, in 1892 and 1S93, as a 

 [member of the Massachu.setts Senate. 

 1 During his career in the House Mr. Park- 

 jman was a member of the Committees on 

 Rules, Labor, Bills in the Third Reading. 

 Cities, Street Railways and Constitutional 

 Amendments. In the Senate he was 

 chairman of the Committees on Cities and 

 on Rules, and was a member of the Com- 

 mittees on Election Laws and on Parishes 

 and Religious Societies. 



He vvas president of the training school 

 ■for nurses connected with the Massachu- 

 setts General Hospital up to the time that 

 it was taken over by the hospital as a part 

 of its own organization. This school was 

 founded by his mother, Mrs. Samuel Park- 

 man, and others. 



Active in Republican Affairs 



In politics, he was always a Republican, 

 active in the party organization. He was 

 at various times, president of the Repub- 

 lican City Committee, besides holding 

 other offices of that body. In 1894, he 

 was appointed a member of the Massachu- 

 setts Prison Commls.sion, in which capacity 

 he was continued until 191.5. 



On Dec. 2i, 1895, Mr. Parkman was ap- 

 pointed by Mayor Edwin U. Curtis to flU 

 the vacancy in the board of trustees of 

 tlie, Boston City Hospital, catiesd by the [ 

 death of George B. Nichols. In the spring 

 of the same year, when Mayor Curtis was 

 selecting persons to be appointed members 

 of the commission to examine the city 

 finnanees, he wrote to the Citizens' Aeso- 

 ciation and asked It to recommend the man 

 whom it considered best qualified to repre- 

 sent the large real estate owners and tax- 

 payers of the city. The as.sociatlon recom- 

 mended Mr. Parkman, l^eeause of hie 

 knowledge of city affairs and of financial 

 matters in general and he was appointed i 

 to the commission, afterward ; being elected 

 chairman. | 



Mr. Parkman had been a director and 

 vice president of the Boston Heal Estate 

 Exchange and served on many important 

 committees of the exchange, .such ae the j 

 legislative and executive committees. He I 

 v,as consideied as one of the best-informed 

 men on real estate matters in this city. 



Had Many Interests 



In addition to his responsibilities as 

 tr' T^nror fif the Provident Institution for 

 ; , - r :,rkman bad numerous other 



rs. He was a director 'if 

 : ! ts Hospital Life Insurance 

 <:f th,- Merchants National 

 I the New Engla.nd 



. Company, and was 



Municipal Real Estate 

 ^(,^.-1 ,v 1 1 u-f-Hsnrer and member of the 

 board of managers of the Massachusetts 

 ! Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; also 

 president and member of the board ot 

 nianaBPrs of the A«am« rvervine Asylum, a 

 truslBP of thp Fe.iwav Studios Tru.= t, and 

 memlier •-.£ the advisory council of the Bos- 

 ton Real Estate Exchange. In 1917 he was 

 a delegate to the Massachusetts Coastltu- 1 

 tional Convention. 



In his club interests, Mr. Parkman was 

 a member of the Union, St. Botolph, 

 Lnlon oBat and The Country clubs and 

 belonged also to the Boston Athletic Asso- 

 ciation, of which he bad been president, as 

 'he had been of The Union Boat Cltib. He 

 always was deeply interested in athletics. 



Mr. Parkman made many trips abroad 

 and served at one time as executor of the 

 property of Hon, Edward Twistleton, whose 

 , widow wa.s Mr. Parkman's aunt, Ellen 

 Dwight Twistleton 



Just before he was taken 111, Mr Park- 

 man had planned to spend the summer at 

 .the Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert 

 Island. Me., where hp had a ootta.ge, known 

 as "Windward." After the final ai-range- 

 ments tor the trip had been completed, his 

 ph.vsician advised its postponement. Hp to 

 within a few days of his death, his condi- 



tion had improved to such an extent that 

 h-.s rpovpry was thought to be assured. 



Mr Pa.rkman was married on Aug. 21, 

 1S90, Perth Amboy, N. J., to Mary 



Frances Parker of Newark. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Parkman made their home in Boston for 

 many years at 15 Charles street and later 

 at 56 Chester street. In recent years they 

 have lived at 30 Commonwealth avenue. 



Ml, Parkman is survived by his wif«, 

 two sons and three daughters. The sons 

 are Henry Parkman. Jr.. of 182 Beacon 

 street, who married Mrs. Arthur Rotch, 

 and Francis Parkman, who married Miss 

 Eleanor M. Bremer and who now lives In 

 Brookline. The daughters are Mary E. 

 Parkman, now the wife of Rev. Malcolm 

 E. Peabody of Lawrence; Edith W. Park- 

 man who married William P. Homans, 

 and ' Penelope B. Parkman, the wife ot 

 Roger Grlswold. Mr. and Mrs. Homatia 

 and Mr and Mrs. Griswold live In Boston. 

 Mr. Parkman leaves also a sister, Mrs. 

 ■William W. Vaughan of3o4 eBaoon street, 

 Iwho before her marriage was Miss Ellen 

 I T. Parkman. _ 



The funeral will take place on Thursday 

 at Trinity Churoh. 



'7* 



Henry Parkman 



An estimable and most useful citizen, 

 typically Bostonlan in character and 

 virtues, has been lost In the death of Henry 

 Parkman, whose name wili long be asso- 

 ciated with the "solid men of Boston" to 

 whose family he belonged, and who lai:- 

 I the foundations of our city's commercial 

 and financial greatness. 



Mr. Parkman was not merely a financial 

 administrator of the highest class: he had 

 served the city and the State unselfishly 

 and well in the Corara<*n CouncU, in the 

 General Court and for a long time on the [ 

 Prison Commissloo. Private thrift sjtfl j 

 absolute reliability were in him united -with j 

 the civic spirit. He sprang from a race ' 

 of men who gave as high a distinction to 

 the word "merchant" as it ever has at- 

 tained in the history of mankind. 



In association with the Shaws, Thorn- 

 dikes, Amorys and others in traaing 

 enterprises ot World-iwide scope. Samuel 

 Parkipan. had, in a time of great flna.n- 

 cial uncertainty, made Boston bank bills 

 quoted the country over . on a par with 

 gold and well above their own bank paper : 

 their word was better than the bonds of 

 the rest of the world. From such a stand- 

 ard of reliability Henry Parlcman. as the 

 successor and continuator of those hon- 

 crable merchants of an earlier day, never 

 departed. He has left a record of which 

 any citizen might well be proud. 



