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Georgia Genealogy Trails "Where your Journey Begins" |
Cook County, Georgia
Biographies
PARKER, Francis Wayland, educator,
b. in Bedford, N. H., 9 Oct., 1837. He was educated in the public
schools and at the University of Berlin, and taught during his early
manhood, but at the beginning of the civil war enlisted as a private in
the 4th regiment of New Hampshire volunteers, from which he was
mustered out in I860 as lieutenant-colonel. He then resumed teaching,
was superintendent of public schools in Quincy. Mass.. supervisor of
the Boston public schools, and subsequently principal of the Cook
county normal school. Dartmouth gave him the degree of M. A. in 1886.
He has published " Talks on Teaching " (New York, 1883); " The
Practical Teacher " (1884); " Course in Arithmetic " (1884); and " How
to Teach Geography " (1885).
