Theophilus Parsons (professor)
Theophilus Parsons | |
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Born | 1797 |
Died | 1882 | (aged 85)
Education | Harvard College (1815) |
Children | Emily Elizabeth Parsons |
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Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School | |
In office 1848–1870 | |
Succeeded by | Christopher Columbus Langdell |
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
St. Louis, Missouri.[2]
He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.[3]
Works
- "Distinguished Lawyers," Albany Law Journal Aug. 20, 1870, pp 126-7 online.
- A treatise on the law of partnership (1866) online
- Outlines of the religion and philosophy of Swedenborg (1876) online
- A treatise on maritime law (1859) online
References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Parsons, Theophilus and Parsons, Emily Elizabeth, Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Little Brown and Company (1880)
- ISBN 9780823209910.
Theophilus Parsons harvard 1882 1815.