Baptist Minister and Abolitionist who worked to help the freed slaves in the South after the Civil War. He founded several schools to train Black preachers in Maryland. Husband of Melania (Ammidon) Parker, they married in Massachusetts. Father of Emma, Anna, Angie, and Joseph W. Parker, and Lillian (Parker) Barnard. From his obituary in the General Theological Library, 1888:
"The Reverend Joseph W. Parker, D.D., died in Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 9, 1887. He was born in Cavendish, Vt., May 12, 1805, graduated at the Union College in 1831, and at Newton Theological Seminary in 1836, and was ordained to the Baptist Ministry in December, 1837. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge (MA) eighteen years, till the close of 1855. From that time till the close of the war, he was actively engaged in labors in behalf of the Educational Institutions of his denomination. At that time so profound was his interest in the newly emancipated slaves, and so deep was his solicitude for their welfare, that he resigned his position and entered upon the work of establishing schools among the freed-men of the South, so zealously, that his health was seriously injured after five years. Recovering by rest, he was pastor in Washington, D.C., for several years before moving to Los Angeles. He became a corporate member in 1864."
"The Reverend Joseph W. Parker, D.D., died in Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 9, 1887. He was born in Cavendish, Vt., May 12, 1805, graduated at the Union College in 1831, and at Newton Theological Seminary in 1836, and was ordained to the Baptist Ministry in December, 1837. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge (MA) eighteen years, till the close of 1855. From that time till the close of the war, he was actively engaged in labors in behalf of the Educational Institutions of his denomination. At that time so profound was his interest in the newly emancipated slaves, and so deep was his solicitude for their welfare, that he resigned his position and entered upon the work of establishing schools among the freed-men of the South, so zealously, that his health was seriously injured after five years. Recovering by rest, he was pastor in Washington, D.C., for several years before moving to Los Angeles. He became a corporate member in 1864."
Baptist Minister and Abolitionist who worked to help the freed slaves in the South after the Civil War. He founded several schools to train Black preachers in Maryland. Husband of Melania (Ammidon) Parker, they married in Massachusetts. Father of Emma, Anna, Angie, and Joseph W. Parker, and Lillian (Parker) Barnard. From his obituary in the General Theological Library, 1888:
"The Reverend Joseph W. Parker, D.D., died in Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 9, 1887. He was born in Cavendish, Vt., May 12, 1805, graduated at the Union College in 1831, and at Newton Theological Seminary in 1836, and was ordained to the Baptist Ministry in December, 1837. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge (MA) eighteen years, till the close of 1855. From that time till the close of the war, he was actively engaged in labors in behalf of the Educational Institutions of his denomination. At that time so profound was his interest in the newly emancipated slaves, and so deep was his solicitude for their welfare, that he resigned his position and entered upon the work of establishing schools among the freed-men of the South, so zealously, that his health was seriously injured after five years. Recovering by rest, he was pastor in Washington, D.C., for several years before moving to Los Angeles. He became a corporate member in 1864."
"The Reverend Joseph W. Parker, D.D., died in Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 9, 1887. He was born in Cavendish, Vt., May 12, 1805, graduated at the Union College in 1831, and at Newton Theological Seminary in 1836, and was ordained to the Baptist Ministry in December, 1837. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge (MA) eighteen years, till the close of 1855. From that time till the close of the war, he was actively engaged in labors in behalf of the Educational Institutions of his denomination. At that time so profound was his interest in the newly emancipated slaves, and so deep was his solicitude for their welfare, that he resigned his position and entered upon the work of establishing schools among the freed-men of the South, so zealously, that his health was seriously injured after five years. Recovering by rest, he was pastor in Washington, D.C., for several years before moving to Los Angeles. He became a corporate member in 1864."
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