Linus Parker papers, 1853-1884.

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Linus Parker papers, 1853-1884.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122603001

Sermons and miscellaneous material.

1.3 cubic ft. (3 letter-size archive boxes and 1 half-size legal archive box)

Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology

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SNAC Resource ID: 6784906

Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology

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Parker, Franklin Nutting, 1867-1954

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Franklin Nutting Parker was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 20, 1867. He was the son of Bishop Linus Parker and Ellen Katherine Burruss Parker. He attended Centenary College of Louisiana and then Tulane University. Parker served in churches throughout Louisiana until 1911 when he left to become the Professor of Biblical Literature at Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina. He taught there for three years until he was sought by Bishop Warren A. Candler to come to the newly f...

Parker, Linus, 1829-1885.

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Methodist minister, editor of The Christian Advocate, bishop. Linus Parker was born in Oneida County, New York on 23 April 1829. He served as a soldier in the Mexican War in 1846. Parker served as a Supply Minister in New Orleans for two months after which he was licensed as a Methodist Minister. He became an elder in 1853. In 1853 Parker married Sallie F. Sale who died three months later. In 1858 Parker married Ellen K. Burruss. They had three sons, one of whom, Frankly...