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in Fall River, Mass., January 26, 1833, Mr. Bliss is the son of Asahel N. Bliss and Irene B. Luther, and descends from Thomas Bliss, who came from Devonshire, England, about 1635 and resided at Braintree, Mass., and Hartford, Conn. His father having died when he was an infant, Mr. Bliss removed to New Orleans with his mother and step- father, Edward S. Keep, attended the New Orleans High School, spent a year in the counting-room of his stepfather, and then.entered the employ of James M. Beebe & Company, drygoods commission merchants of Boston. In 1866 he became a member of the Boston firm of John S. and Eben Wright & Company, and soon after removed to New York to establish a branch house. The style of this firm even- tually became Wright, Bliss & Fabyan, and subsequently, as at pres- ent, Bliss, Fabyan & Company.
JESUP, MORRIS KETCHUM, philanthropist and public-spirited citizen of New York City, was long engaged in mercantile life in this city. Between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three he was in the service of the mercantile firm of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor: from 1852 to 1856 was a member of the firm of Clark & Jesup, and in the latter year organized the firm of M. K. Jesup & Company, which in 1883 was changed to Jesup, Paton & Company. This firm was subse- quently succeeded by Cuyler, Morgan & Company, of which Mr. C. C. Cuyler, Mr. Jesup's nephew, is the head. Mr. Jesup is a director of the Central Railroad of South Carolina. He was one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, for many years was its President, and liberally contributed toward the erection of the building of the Twenty-third Street Branch. For many years he has been President of the Five Points House of Industry. He is also President of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, and is Vice-President of the Evangelical Alliance. He is a director of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, as he is also of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association. In 1881 he built and donated to the City Mission and Tract Society the De Witt Memorial Church. He is a trustee of the Union Theological Seminary, and provided for the erection of one of its buildings at the time of the removal of the insti- tution to its present site. He is Treasurer of the J. F. Slater Pund. for the elevation of the negro race. During the Civil War he was one of the founders of the United States Christian Commission, of which he became Treasurer. For many years he has been President of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, of which he was also one of the incorporators and original trustees. To this institution he presented the Jesup collection of the woods of the United States, embracing over four hundred and fifty specimens of native trees. He has been a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce for more than thirty years, and has been one of its vice- presidents. Ilis successful enlistment of the Chamber of Commerce
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into action to secure the preservation of the forests of this State in 1884 was chiefly instrumental in securing the enactment of forestry laws and the appointment of a forestry commission two years later. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Williams College and Yale University. Mr. Jesup was born in Westport, Fairfield County, Conn., June 21, 1830, his family having been established there for many generations. He is the son of Charles Jesup and Abby, daughter of Sammel B. Sherwood, a graduate of Vale, and lawyer of distinction, who served in Congress two terms, from 1817 to 1821. Mr. Jesup's father was originally a merchant of Westport, but later became a member of a large mercantile firm of New York City. He died at the age of forty-two. Both the Jesup and Sherwood families are of old Puritan stock.
BROWN, VERNON HOWLAND, is a native of Boston, Mass., and is of old New England stock, the son of the late Vernon Brown and Susan Howland Atkins Nash. Having been educated at Chauncey Hall, Boston, he received his early business training with the firm of Sampson & Tappen, prominent Boston shipowners and merchants in the India and China trade. Subsequently he entered the shipping business in partnership with his father, under the style of Vernon Brown & Son. In 1861 he came to New York and established the house of Vernon H. Brown & Company. He has been prominent in shipping circles for many years, and since 1880 has been American agent of the Cunard Steamship Company. He has for many years served on the Harbor and River Committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce. By appointment of Mayor Grace he served as one of the Commissioners for building the famous Washington Bridge in the northern section of the city. He is a trustee of the Seamen's Bank for Savings, the Colonial Trust Company, and the Atlantic Mutual Insur- ance Company, and a director of the Hanover National Bank, the Panama Railroad Company, the Eastern Insurance Company of New York, and the Northern Insurance Company of New York. He is a member of the Union, City, and New York Yacht clubs.
OELRICHS. HERMAN, has been a member of the firm of Oelrichs & Company. of this city. agents of the North German Lloyd Steam- ship Line, since 1875, and has been its executive head and senior member since 1887, when the elder Gustav Sebwab retired. For some time prior to 1895 he was a member of the Democratie National Com- mittee. He has refused proposals to make him the Democratic can- didate for Mayor of this city. He is a director of the National Park Bank and of the Madison Square Garden Company. He is a mem- ber of the Union. Metropolitan, Racquet. Players', Democratic. Law- vers', and New York Yacht chibs, and the Liederkranz. He was born in Baltimore, Md .. June 8. 1850. attended private schools, and finished
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his education in Germany. He married, in 1890, Theresa Alice. daughter of the late James G. Fair, one of the four owners of the famous bonanza mines, and United States Senator from Nevada, and has a son-Herman Odrichs, Jr. Mr. Odrichs is himself the son of the late Heury Odrichs and a daughter of Dr. frederick May, of Washington. The firm of Ochrichs & Company has been in existence for nearly a century, and was formerly recruited by members who is ecived their business training in Bremen, Germany, before coming to New York. Herman Oelrichs's father came to this country from Bre. men in 1837. He was the son of Johann Gerhand Ochrichs and Catherine Holler, the Oelrichs having been prominently identified with Bremen for many centuries. The head of the family in 1325 was banished to Schleswig-holstein through a difficulty with a burgher. and became established in that duchy.
WALES, SALEM HOWE, long associated with O. D. Mmmm in the publication of the Scientific American, and for twenty-three years its Managing Editor, has been prominent in the public life of New York. In 1855 Governor Seymour appointed him New York State Commis- sioner to the Paris Exposition, and while abroad be contributed a notable series of letters to the New York Sun. He was Executive Manager of the relief work of the Christian Commission during the Civil War, and a prominent member of the Union League ('lub, of which he has been Vice-President, and Chairman of the Executive Committee. He was a Presidential Elector in 1872, and a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1872 and 1876. Appointed Park Commissioner by Mayor Havemeyer in 1878, he was elected President of the Board. In ISTI he was the Republican candidate for Mayor of the city. Acting-Mayor Vance appointed him Dock Com- missioner, and he was elected President of this board also. Park. Commissioner again from 1880 to ISS5, he was again President of the Department. Governor Dix appointed him a Trustee of the State In- sane Asylum at Middletown, N. Y. By the Supreme Comt he was designated one of the Commissioners to appraise damages to property through the construction of the Elevated Railroad. He was a prin- cipal founder of the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1859. and was long ils President. He was also a founder of the Hahne- mann Hospital, of which for many years he was President. He like. wise long hold the office of Treasurer of the Metropolitan Museum of - Art, having been one of its founders. At the present time he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a director of the National Bank of America, the Ifanover Fire Insurance Company, the Southampton Bank, and the Sonthi- ampton Waterworks Company. He was born. October 1. 1825. in Wales. Mass .. where his father, Captain Oliver Wales, was an ex- trusive wooden manufacturer. The founder of the family emigrated
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from England to Boston in 1635. He has resided in this city since 1846, and has a summer home at Southampton, L. L., where he was associated with others in building the Rogers Memorial Library.
TERRY, JOHN TAYLOR, for forty years, from 1843 to 1883, was the partner of ex-Governor Edwin D. Morgan in the wholesale gro- cery business in this city, and since 1883 has been engaged in financial operations. He is Vice-President of the Mercantile Trust Company, and director or trustee of the Metropolitan Trust Company, the Bank of New Amsterdam, the American Exchange National Bank, the Com- mercial Union Fire Insurance Company, the Corralitos Company, the Standard Gas Light Company, the Manhattan Railway, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Sonthern and Atlantic Telegraph Company, the International Ocean Telegraph Company, the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, the American Speaking Telegraph Company, the American Telegraph and Cable Company, the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, the Wa- bash Railroad Company, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company. He is interested in several benevolent in- stitutions, including the Presbyte- rian Hospital and New York Insti- tution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, of both of which he is a director. He was born in Hartford, Conn., September 9, 1822, the son of Hon. Roderick Terry, merchant and bank president of Hartford, and grandson of Judge Eliphalet Terry. Speaker of the JOHN T. TERRY. Connecticut Legislature for thirty- three years, 1778 to 1812. He is lineally descended from Samuel Terry, an early settler of Springfield. Mass, and original patentee of Enfield. Conn., in 1657, as he is also from Governor Bradford, of Plymouth, Governor Haynes of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and Governor Wyllys of Connecticut. He was married in 1846 to Elizabeth Roe Peet, of Brooklyn.
FLINT. CHARLES RANLETT, is one of the most eminent mer- chants in the exporting trade with South America, and is an officer of a large number of important corporations. He has been very active as a business organizer. Having graduated from the Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute, in 1871 he engaged in business as a member of the
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firm of Gilchrist, Flint & Company. The next year he became one of the founders of the notable firm of W. R. Grace & Company, and was a partner. In 1874 he traveled in South America. He organized the Export Lumber Company in 1878, and has been one of its directors since. With his father, the late Benjamin Flint, and his brother, Wallace Benjamin Flint, he organized, in 1885, the firm of Flint & Company, which rapidly assumed a leading place in the South Ameri- can trade. Subsequently he effected a consolidation of large export- ing interests, forming the notable corporation of Flint, Eddy & Com- pany, of which he has since been a director. In 1892 he organized the United States Rubber Company, and is its Treasurer. In addition to the connections mentioned, at the present time he is also Treasurer of the Hastings Pavement Company, a trustee of the State Trust Company, and a director of the New York Produce Exchange. the National Bank of the Republic, the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the National Surety Company, the United States Casualty Company, the Mechanical Rubber Company, the Audit Company, the Staten Island Electric Railroad, and the Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway Company. He has enjoyed important official relations with various South American and Central American States. He has been Consul of Chile in New York, Consul of Nicaragua, Consul-General of Costa Rica, aud Acting Chargé d'affaires of Chile in the United States. He was a delegate to the conference of American republies at Washing- ton in 1889-90, and proposed the organization of the bureau of Ameri- can republies. As confidential agent of the United States he nego- tiated the reciprocity treaty with Brazil, which became the basis of treaties with other South American countries and with Spain. Through his ageney the mediation of Brazil was offered in the issue between Chile and the United States over the Baltimore incident. In view of the attempt to restore the monarchy in Brazil, he performed a service of vast importance to the republican government of that country in securing munitions of war, and procuring Ericsson's de- stroyer, the steamships El Cid and Britannia, converted into the armed cruisers Nictheroy and America, and the fast yachts Feiseen and Javelin, transformed into torpedo-boats. In the recent war with Spain he has performed for the United States a similar service in influencing the sale to this country of several Brazilian vessels, in- cluding the Nictheroy. He is a prominent yachtsman, and was one of the syndicate that successfully defended the America Cup against . the Valkyrie with the Vigilant. His yacht Gracie has been remark- ably successful in winning races. He is also a sportsman, and has hunted in the Rocky Mountains, Canada, and South America. He is one of the Council of the New York University, and is a member of the Union, Metropolitau, Century, Racquet, Riding, Lawyers', New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, and Sonthside Sportsmen's clubs, and the St. Stephen's Club, of London.
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He was President of his class in the Polytechnic Institute, and has since been President of the Alummi Association of that institution. He married, in 1883, E. Kate, daughter of Joseph F. Simmons, of Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Flint has been a liberal patroness of St. Luke's Hospital.
STARIN, JOHN HENRY, is at the head of an immense transpor- tation business in New York Harbor and vicinity, which is entirely of his own creation. He is an active Republican, and from 1876 to 1880 he represented the Twentieth New York District in Congress. Ile has also served upon the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners for New York City. He has been a member of the New York Cham- ber of Commerce since 1874, is a director of the Liberty National Bank and the New York Ship Building and Engine Company, and is a member of the Union League, New York Yacht, New York Ath- letic, Lawyers', and Adirondack League clubs, the Holland Society, the Downtown Association, the New England Society, the Union College Alumni, and the Society of Sons of the American Revolution. He is a trustee of Union College. Succeeding Horatio Seymour in 1880 as President of the Saratoga Monument Association, organized to secure a suitable monument to mark the field of the battle of Sara- toga, Mr. Starin made a generous donation, induced others to do so, and obtained a Congressional appropriation of $30,000, thus accom- plishing the purpose of the movement. He was born in Summons- ville, Fulton County, N. Y., August 27, 1825, and is the son of Myndert Starin and Rachel, daughter of Major Thomas Summons. He lineally descends from Johannes Ster, who emigrated from Holland to the New Netherlands about 1648. Mr. Starin was graduated from Union College, studied medicine for some time, but found it uncongenial, and entered his brother's drug store. He was Postmaster of Fulton- ville, N. Y., from 1848 to 1852. IIe established a store and manufac- tory for medicine and toilet articles in New York City in 1856, but soon abandoned this to execute a project conceived by him for a river and harbor freight transportation agency. He is proprietor of the largest individual enterprise of the kind in the country. He has fleets of tugboats and propellers, lighters and car-boats, excursion barges and other pleasure boats, while he owns passenger and freight lines plying on the Hudson River and Long Island Sound.
MACKAY, JOHN W., has developed some of the best known mines in the United States, and since 1883 has been prominently comected with the transatlantic cable service. In 1883-4, in partnership with James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, he laid two cables across the Atlantic to England and France, respectively. These fonn the nucleus of the so-called " Commercial " system. At the present time he is President of the Commercial Cable Company, President
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of the United States and Hayti Telegraph and Cable Company, Presi- dent of the Commercial Cable Building Company, and a director of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. In conjunction with James G. Fair and James C. Flood he founded the Bank of Nevada, with headquarters at San Francisco, in 1878. The nomination as United States Senator from Nevada, offered to him with the certainty of eler. tion in 1885, he refused to accept. Born in Dublin, Ireland, November 28, 1831, he came to New York City when a boy, and worked for some time in the shipyards of William IL. Webb. The gold fever of '49 car- ried him to California, but for many years his success as a prospector was very moderate. Abont 1860 he left California for Nevada. James C. Flood and William O'Brien, and eventually James G. Fair, became his partners, his own share, however, as the active prospector and miner, being double that of any of the others. The first notable suc- cess was obtained with the Hale and Norcross Mine in 1866 and 1867. In 1872 occurred the discovery of the famous " bonanza " mines, the Comstock and Consolidated Virginia and California mines. Mr. Mackay personally superintended the working of the mines, and from a single one the fabulous sum of $150,000,000 in silver and gold was taken out. Mr. Mackay married the widow of Dr. Bryant, and has resided much of the time in Paris, where his two sons were educated. His wife's one child by her first husband is now the Princess of Co. lonna-Galatro, having married in 1885 Don Fernando di Colonna, Prince of Galatro. One of Mr. Mackay's two sons, John W., Jr., recently died from the effect of a fall while riding.
HOYT, MARK. was one of the leading and most active organizers of the United States Leather Company, under a capitalization of $120.000.000, in May, 1893; was one of its incorporators and original directors, was its first Vice-President, and was the second who held the office of President. ocenpying this position at the time of his death. He was born in Stamford. Comn., May 5, 1835, the youngest in a family of ten children. He attended schools up to the age of fourteen, and then served five years as an apprentice in the tanuing and currying business, in which several of his brothers were engaged. In March, 1854, three of these brothers. Joseph B .. William, and Ol- iver Hoyt, founded the leather firm of Hoyt Brothers, of New York City. After three years as a clerk, Mark Hoyt was received iuto this firm. In 1868 he withdrew, and for two years engaged in the broker- . age business in New York City, under the style of Mark Hoyt & Company. In 1870 he again entered the firm of Hoyt Brothers, of which he was a member until his death, being its head after the death of Hon. Oliver Hoyt. He was a trustee of Adelphi Academy. Brooklyn; the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, Wesleyan Uni- versity, at Middletown. Com .; the American University of Washing- ton, D. C .; and Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J., being
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also Treasurer of the last-mentioned. He was a member of the Ful- ton Club. of New York, and the Union League Club, of Brooklyn. Dur- ing the Civil War he raised the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth New York Volunteers, and for a time was its Colonel. He married, April 19. 1864. nn Angusta, daughter of the late Philo Scofield, of New York. and had an only son, who died unmarried, and an only dangh- ter. now residing in New York.
CLEWS, HENRY, at the head of one of the well-known banking firms of New York City, is also a writer on financial subjects. He was born in England, of an ancient Staffordshire family, his father being a manufacturer for the American market. He accompanied his father on a visit to this country at the age of fifteen, and obtain- ing permission to relinquish the proposed career as a clergyman of the Church of England for mercan- tile life in New York, became a clerk with Wilson G. Hunt & Com- pany, of this city, importers of woolen goods. In 1838 he became a member of the banking firm of Stout, Clews & Mason, soon after reorganized as Livermore, Clews & Company. under which style it passed through the period of the Civil War. Active and outspoken in support of the Union throughont this struggle, and a zealous cham- pion of the value of the Federal se- curities. Mr. Clews was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, agent of the Gov- HENRY CLEWS. ernment for the sale of its bonds, and shared with Jay Cooke the principal credit for the important service of placing the Federal war loans. In 1877 his banking house was reorganized under the style of Heury Clews & Company, which it has since retained. Mr. Clews has been a contributor to the North American Rerico, the Forum, and other magazines, as well as an editorial contributor to leading newspapers. His volume of financial history and reminiscence, " Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street." has attracted wide attention. He was one of the founders of the Union League Club, and has served as one of its governors. He was promi- nent in the overthrow of the Tweed ring. He is a member of the Union (Inb, and for many years was Treasurer of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, as also of the American Geographical Society.
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FRELINGHUYSEN. THEODORE, manufacturer and Treasurer of the Coats Thread Company, is the eldest son of the late Frederick Frelinghuysen, Attorney-General of New Jersey, United States Sen- ator from that State, and Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Presi- dent Arthur; is the great-grandson of General Frederick Freling- huysen, of the Revolution, and United States Senator from New Jer- sey; is the great-great-grandson of Rev. John Frelinghuysen, and is removed by one more generation from Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Fre- linghuysen, who was born in West Friesland in 1691, entered the .ministry of the Reformed Dutch Church in his native land, and in 1720 emigrated to the colonies to minister to the new settlement on the Raritan River, New Jersey. He is grandnephew of Brigadier-General John Frelinghuysen, of the War of 1812, as he is also of Theodore Fre- linghuysen, Attorney-General of New Jersey, United States Senator, Mayor of Newark, Chancellor of the University of New York, Prosi- dent of Rutgers College, and Whig candidate for President in 1844 on the ticket with Henry Clay. His mother was Matilda, daughter of the late George Griswold, a prominent merchant of this city. Mr. Frelinghuysen was born in 1860. He married Alice, daughter of James Coats, the well-known thread manufacturer. He is a member of the Union, Metropolican, Knickerbocker, Merchants', and Country clubs, and the Hope Club of Providence.
George Griswold Frelinghuysen, brother of Theodore, is engaged in the practice of law in New York City, and is a director of the Auto- matic Vending Company and of P. Ballantine & Sons. He married Sarah L. Ballantine, and has a residence in this city, and a country place, Whippany Farm, in Morristown, N. J. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Church. Lawyers', Morristown, Morris County Golf, and Essex County Country clubs, and the Metropolitan Club of Wash- ington.
Frederick Frelinghuysen, brother of Theodore and George Gris- wold, is engaged in the practice of law in New York City, but resides in Newark, N. J. He is President of the Newark Savings Institution, and is a director of the Manufacturing Investment Company. He is. a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Lawyers, and Essex County Country clubs.
MeALPIN, DAVID HUNTER, became a resident of New York City in 1836, learned the business of tobacco manufacturing, and estab- lished his own business; in 1857 became a member of the firm of John Cornish & Company, tobacco manufacturers, and subsequently bought ont his partners and reorganized the firm of D. H. MeAAlpin & Company. He has been its head for about thirty years, having been President since the incorporation of the business under the title of the D. HI. MeAlpin Company. He is also a trustee of the Union Trust Company, and a director of the National Bank of the
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Republic, the Eleventh Ward Bank, the German-American Real Es- tate Title and Guarantee Company, the Standard Gaslight Company. the Home Insurance Company, and the Manhattan Life Insurance Company. Ile is also a director of the Union Theological Seminary, and has been a director of the Rutgers Fire Insurance Company and the First National Bank of Morristown, N. J. He erected Olivet Chapel in this city in memory of one of his sons-Joseph Rose Mc- Alpin-who died in 1888. Another son, John Randolph MeAlpin. died in 1893. having that year graduated from Princeton. By his wife. Adelaide, daughter of JJoseph Rose, of an old New York family. Mr. MeAlpin has living five sons -- Colonel Edwin A., George L., Dr. David Hunter. Jr., William Willet, and Charles W., and two daugh- ters-Mrs. James Tolinan Pyle and Mrs. William Rockefeller. Born in Pleasant Valley. N. Y., November 8. 1816. Mr. MeAlpin is of Scotch- Irish descent. the son of James MeAlpin and Jane Hunter, who came to this country from the north of Ireland.
PARSONS, WILLIAM HENRY, early in life was employed in an English shipping house, and later with a firm of paper manufacturers and dealers, with whom he remained as a partner for two years. About 1857 he established the firm of W. H. Parsons & Company. paper merchants, of this city. which has been one of the leading houses, and in 1891 was incorporated, principally doing a commis- sion business for a quarter of a century. In recent years the firm have been large manufacturers. Mr. Parsons is President of W. H. Parsons & Company, of Maine and New York; is President of the Lis- bon Falls Fiber Company. of Lisbon Falls, Me .; is President of the Bowdoin Paper Manufacturing Company, of Brunswick, Me., and is a director of the Pejepscot Paper Company, of Pejepscot, Me. He is President of the Business Address Company, of this city; a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank. President of the National League for the Protection of American Institutions, President of the Westchester County Bible Society. First Vice-President of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. a member of the Chamber of Com- merce. a Vice-President of the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia Museums, a manager of the Philadelphia Presbyterian Board of Pub- lication and Sabbath School Work, a Manager of the Westchester Temporary Home for Destitute Children, and a member of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He is a trustee of the American Yacht Club and Chairman of its House Committee, and is a member of the Metro- politan, Union League, City. New York Athletic, and Atlantic Yacht clubs. He married. in 1857. Laura C., daughter of John Palmer and granddaughter of Judge Palmer, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. and has living a daughter, Mrs. David S. Cowles, and two sons, Will- iam II., Jr., and Marselis Clarke Parsons. Mrs. Parsons died in
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