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CHILDREN OF CAPTAIN CHARLES PARSONS | 105
AND LUCY BALDWIN PARSONS.

I. Charles Parsons, b. 1785; had one daughter.
II. Ebenezer Parsons, b. 1788; d. young.

III. Isaac Parsons, b. 1789; went to Canada.

IV. Lucy Parsons, b. 1791; m. John Anderson; had
five children.

V. Lewis Baldwin Parsons, b. 1793; m. Lucina Hoar.
VI. Walter Chamberlain Parsons, b., North Adams,
Mass., March 30, 1795; d. June 17, 1859, at Middletown,
N. J.; m., March 28, 1829, Mary Moreford; b. Decem-
ber 6, 1800; d. March 23, 1875.

VII. Marshall Parsons, b. 1797; d. 1813.

CHILDREN OF WALTER CHAMBERLAIN PAR- 155
SONS AND MARY MOREFORD PARSONS.

I. Lucy Moreford Parsons, b. September 27, 1832; d. in Germany, August 10, 1870; m. Wm. Wurdeman, Civil Engineer, January, 23, 1859.

II. Charles Baldwin Parsons, b Monmouth, N. J., July 3, 1835; m., January 20, 1868, Elizabeth M. Bergen, b. October 3, 1848. Enlisted November, 1861, in 1st New York Engineers and served with distinction till close of the Rebellion, July, 1865, on Staff of Major-General Terry as Inspector, on that of Major-General Butler as Engineer, and as Chief Engineer, 25th Army Corps, on Staff of Major-General Weitzel, participating in the battles about Charleston, S. C., and Petersburg, Va. Retired with the rank of Captain and Brevet Major.

LEWIS BALDWIN PARSONS, SEN.

Lewis Baldwin Parsons, b. Williamstown, Mass., April
30, 1793; d. Detroit, Mich., December 21, 1855; m.,
November 10, 1814, Homer, N. Y., Lucina Hoar; b.
October 31, 1790, Brimfield, Mass.; d. October 3, 1873,

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Gouverneur, N. Y. He was a successful merchant, a man
of uncommon force and energy of character, of rare
catholicity in his religious views, as also in the breadth
of his charities, and was the founder of Parsons' College,
Iowa.

The English ancestry of Lucina Hoar, and the early
history of her family in America, may be found in the
researches made in both countries by Hon. George F.
Hoar, United States Senator from Massachusetts, and
published in the New England Historical and Genealog-
ical Register for January, April, and July, 1899.

EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF LEWIS BALDWIN
PARSONS.

"Fourth. Having long been of the opinion that for use-
fulness, prosperity, and happiness of children, a good
moral and intellectual or business education with moderate
means was far better than large inherited wealth; I there-
fore herein dispose of my estate mainly to such benevolent
objects and enterprises as I think will conduce to the great-
est good, earnestly requesting that all my children after
giving to their children a good education with habits of
honesty, industry, economy, and liberality, will follow my
example in the disposition of the property God may give
them."

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I. Octavia Parsons, b., in Scipio, N. Y., October 27, 1815; d. December 25, 1881; m., August, 1838, Wm. Erastus Sterling; b. June 4, 1801; d. March 5, 1861; merchant of Gouverneur, N. Y.

II. Philo Parsons, b. Scipio, N. Y., February 7, 1817;
d. Winchenden, Mass., January 23, 1896; m., June 27,
1843, Moscow, N. Y., Ann Eliza Barnum; b. September
14, 1822; d., Detroit, Mich., April 25, 1893.

III. General Lewis Baldwin Parsons, jr.; b. Genesee
Co., N. Y., April 5, 1818.