THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1924 



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i HENRY PARKMAN MOURNED 



Friends and Business Associates Pay Last 

 Tribute at Services Conducted by Bishop 

 Lawrence at Trinity Church 



Several hundred relatives and friends of 

 Henry Parkman, treasurer of the Provident , 

 Institution for Savings tor twenty-nin^ 

 years and a leading- financier in Boston 

 attended the funeral services held at nooi 

 at Trinity Ohurch. Previously a private 

 ■ice had been held at the Parkmai 



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The Providen Institute 

 ing the services and the office: 

 of the employees weer at the church to 

 pay their last tribute. There were present 

 aleo representatives of most of the savings 

 hanks and commercial banks in Boston, 

 to all of whom Mr. Parkman was a friend. 

 The Boston Real Estate Exchange was 

 represented by Charles W. Whittler, P'ran- 

 cis Peabody and Moses Williams. Mr. 

 Parkman had been a director and vice 

 president of the Exchange and had served 

 on important committees. Fifteen fellow 

 members of the executive committee of the 

 New England Liberty Loan Committee, 

 who served with Mr. Parkman, were pres- 

 ent, as follows: Charles A. Morss, former 

 of the Federal Reserve Bank of 

 .John R. Macomber, Clarence E. 

 Perkins, John K. Allen, Philip S. Dalton. 

 James Nowell, Thomas B. Gannett, Jacob 

 A. Bavbey, Allen Curtis, Frederic H. Cur- 

 li.ss, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank 

 of Boston ; Philip Stockton, James J. 

 Phelan, Robert C. Morse, Robert S. 

 Weeks and Frank W. Remick. Senator 

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Although Mr. Park- 

 man had not actively practised law for 

 many years, a number of his friends in the 

 legal profession were at the church. 

 Among close personal friends were Wilmot 

 R. Evans, president, and .loscph C. 

 Holmes, treasurer, of the Boston Five 

 Cents Savings Bank: A. P. Weeks and 

 Frederic C. Waite, vice presidents of the 

 Merchants National Bank, of which Mr. 

 Parkm.an had been a director for a number 

 of years. The New England Mutual Life 

 In.wrance Corapa,ny, the ■Massachusetts 

 Hospital Lite Insurance Company, Massa- 

 chusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary 

 and other organizations which he had 

 served as a director or officer were repre- 

 sented. 



The honorary pallbearers were: John S. 

 A.dams, Charles P. Adams, Daniel P. Appel, 

 Joseph Bigelow, Louis Curtis, Lawrence 

 Curtis, Edward Grew, Augustus P. Loring, 

 George H. Lyman, Howard Stockton. Henry 

 Vaughan and Alonzo P. Weeks. The ushers 

 were: J. Wells Farley, Francis Gray, 

 Ronald T. Lyman, Charles Weston, Roger 

 Wolcott and Samuel H. Wolcott. 



Bishop Lawrence conducted the service, 

 assisted by Rev. Henry K. Sherrill, rector. 

 Francis W. Snow was at the organ and 

 the vested choir sang the following hymns: 

 "Jerusalem the Golden." "The King of 

 Love My Shepard Is," and "I Heard the 

 Sound of Voices." 



The casket rested Just inside the chancel, 

 with a beautiful cross of white lilies given 

 by Mr. Parkman's children at its head. 

 The casket was blanketed in .smilax set off 

 with two small wreaths. There were many 

 other beautiful flowers, including a sheaf 

 of roses from those who served under Mr. 

 Parkman at the Provident Institution for 

 Savings and other flowers ' from the same 

 bank, other banks and various Institutions 

 and individuals. 



The body was taken to Forest Hills 

 Cemetery, where Mr. 'Sherrill conducted 

 the committal service at the family lot. 



[IjLetters to the Editor 



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AK IMPORTANT SERVICE OF 

 HENRY PARKMAN'S 



To the Editor of the Transcript: 



.ppraisal Of the public services of 

 Henry Parkman, there should be included 

 his valuable, painstaking, conscientious 

 work as chairman of the Committee on 

 State PInanae in the Constitutional Conven- 

 tion. Under the leadership of Mr. Park- 

 man, all of the recommendations of the 

 committee were adopted by the convention 

 and afterwards ratified by the people and 

 are now a part of the Constitution of the 

 Commonwealth. These include the amend- 

 ment providing that the credit of the Com- 

 monwealth shall not be given or loaned to 

 the aid of any individual, private asso- 

 ciation or corporation ; the requirement of 

 a two-thirds vote in each branah o£ the 

 Legislature on the matter of loans to the 

 Commonwealth ; the limitation of the expen- 

 diture of borrowed money by the State to 

 no other purpose than that for which it was 

 borrowed or for reduction or payment of 

 the loan ; the constitutional establishment 

 of the executive budget ; and the right to 

 a separate veto by the governor (lof items 

 in appropriation bills. In the advocacy and 

 drafting af these propositions Mr. Parkman 

 found a happy and congenial task. 



Characteristic of the man was his brief 

 statement made during the debate on the 

 so-called anti-aid amendment. When speak- 

 ing for a charitable organization that had 

 received great help from the Commonwealth, 

 he said for the friends of that Institution, 

 "I believe they would heartily support the 

 amendment as offered now; and want to 

 Bay that I further believe that friends of 

 other private institutions would put pa- 

 triotism above other things and vote so as 

 to remove any religious or sectarian ques- 

 tions outside of future political discussions." 



Mr. Parkman was a man without guile, 

 broad and sympathetic and quick to accept 

 Whatever merit lay in an opponent's ar- 

 gument. He commanded the utmost confi- 

 dence of (his associates. In afflce. 



JOSIPH J. ttBONASS 



Boston, June 25. 



