Theophilus Parsons (professor)

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Theophilus Parsons
Born1797
Died1882 (1883) (aged 85)
EducationHarvard College (1815)
ChildrenEmily Elizabeth Parsons
Parent
Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
In office
1848–1870
Succeeded byChristopher Columbus Langdell
Portrait of Theophilus Parsons, by August Edouart, ca.1842

Theophilus Parsons (1797–1882) was Dane

Professor of Law at Harvard
from 1848 to 1870.

Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of

He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Parsons, Theophilus" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Parsons, Theophilus and Parsons, Emily Elizabeth, Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Little Brown and Company (1880)
  3. . Theophilus Parsons harvard 1882 1815.