Edward M. Parker

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 (1820-1863) and Fanny Cushing (Stone) Parker (1827-1898). 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.

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, when he died suddenly during the General Convention of the church.

Marriage He married Grace Elmendorf (d. 1888) of Racine, Wisconsin, in 1885. After her death, he remarried Isabella Goodrich (1882-1963) in 1914.