Monday, June 23, 2008

Francis Parkman


Francis Parkman



Born: 16-Sep-1823

Birthplace: Boston, MA

Died: 8-Nov-1893

Location of death: Jamaica PlainMA

Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Historian
Nationality: United States

Executive summary: France and England in North America

Father: Francis Parkman Sr.

Mother: Caroline Hall Parkman

Wife: Catherine Scollay

Bigelow (m. May-1850, d. 1858)

Daughter: Grace (b. 1851)

Son: Francis (b. 1854, d. 1857 scarlet fever)

Daughter: Katharine (b. 1858)

Sister: Lizzie
High School: Chauncey Hall


Law School: Harvard University (1846)
Boston Saturday Club
Is the subject of books:

A Life of Francis Parkman, 1900, BY: Charles Haight Farnham Francis Parkman, Heroic Historian, 1972, BY: Mason Wade
Author of books:

The California and Oregon Trail (1849, nonfiction)

The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851, nonfiction)

Vassall Morton (1856, novel)

Pioneers of France in the New World (1865, nonfiction)

Book of Roses (1866, nonfiction)

The Jesuits in North America (1867, nonfiction)

La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869, nonfiction)

The Old Regime in Canada (1874, nonfiction)

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877, nonfiction)

Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)

Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour (1885, nonfiction)

A Half-Century of Conflict (1892, nonfiction)