About Edwin Wallace Parker
Lived 1833 – 1901 (aged 68). Edwin Wallace Parker was a priest.
Edwin Wallace Parker (January 21, 1833 – June 4, 1901) was an American Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop.
Biography He was born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He was educated at the St. Johnsbury Academy and at the General Biblical Institute at Concord, New Hampshire, joining the Vermont Conference of his denomination in 1857.
In 1859 he sailed for India and spent the rest of his life there. He was stationed first in the Bijnor district, and later he was for several years superintendent of the Moradabad mission schools. On the organization of the India Conference in 1864 he became presiding elder. In 1900 he was elected Missionary Bishop of Southern Asia.
Parker Intermediate College, established in 1865–66, a school in Moradabad, was named after him.
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American Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop (1833-1901)
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Edwin Wallace Parker was born on 21 January 1833 in St. Johnsbury.
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Edwin Wallace Parker died on 4 June 1901.
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Edwin Wallace Parker was a priest.
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