Parsons, John Edward, 1903-1976.

Lawyer; B.A., Yale, 1925, graduated from Yale Law School, 1928; law clerk for Chief Justice William Howard Taft; admitted to N.Y. bar in 1931; he was associated with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in N.Y. from 1929-1936, and then became independently engaged in practice, also devoting considerable time to writing.

From the description of John Edward Parsons papers, 1960-1976 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166418

Lawyer; B.A., Yale, 1925, graduated from Yale Law School, 1928; law clerk for Chief Justice William Howard Taft; admitted to N.Y. bar in 1931; he was associated with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in N.Y. from 1929-1936, and then became independently engaged in practice, also devoting considerable time to writing.

John Edward Parsons

Lawyer, 32 Liberty Street and 40 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.; residence, Boston Post road, Harrison, N. Y.

Graduating from the Yale Law School in 1928, John had the interesting experience of a year's service as law clerk to Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was associated with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in New York from 1929 to 1936 and has since been independently engaged in practice, also devoting considerable time to writing. He is the author of The Peacemaker and Its Rivals (1950) and Henry Deringer's Pocket Pistol (1952), both published by William Morrow & Company, and of The First Winchester, which is still to be published, and is the coauthor of Firearms in the Custer Battle (Stackpole Company, Harrisbary, 1953). He has contributed articles and book reviews to the New York Historical Society Quarterly, the Atlantic Salmon Journal, and The American Rifleman .

He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1931 and belongs to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, of whose committee on state legislation he was a member from 1935 to 1940. He is a trustee of both the New York Historical Society and the Lenox (Mass.) Library Association and from 1939 to 1941 served on the board of directors and the executive committee of the Radio-Keith-Orheum Corporation.

John, who was on active Navy duty from May, 1942, to November, 1945 (lieutenant, then commander), served for forty months as assistant U-boat tracking officer at the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet in Washington, with temporary duty in London in 1943 and aboard the Guadalcanal in the Atlantic in 1944. He was awarded a Navy Commendation Ribbon, A Navy Unit Citation, and the Order of the British Empire. In December, 1953, he was transferred to the Retired Reserve.

On June 27,1927, he was married in Tuxedo Park, N. Y., to Fanny Haven Wickes. They have three chidren: Fanny Forsyth, born January 3, 1930, Richard Arnot on November 18, 1935, and John E., Jr., on January 11, 1938. Fanny, who graduated from Foxcroft in 1947 and then attended Bennington with the class of 1951, was married on January 20, 1951, to Edward D. Culleton and has two children: Dale Arnot, born July 18, 1952, and Ruth Mcllvaine on May 15, 1954. Hohn, Jr., is a member of the St. Paul's class of 1956.

Thirty Year Record of the Class of 1925, Yale College, pages 286-287

From the guide to the John Edward Parsons papers, 1960-1976, (Manuscripts and Archives)