Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, William H December 30, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Suzy Ward Fleming wardflemin@aol.com March 18, 2014, 11:16 am Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Dec. 31, 1896 Captain Wm. H. Parker Washington, Dec. 30 - Captain Wm. H. Parker, of Richmond, Va., died here today of apoplexy. Captain Parker was formerly president of the Maryland Agricultural College and before the war he was professor of astronomy at Annapolis. At the beginning of the late war he resigned from the federal navy, and, entering the confederate navy, became one of its most prominent officers. At the time of his death he was engaged upon a history of the confederate navy, which he was commissioned to write by the Historical Society of Virginia. Captain Parker was a son of Commodore Foxhall Parker, of the old navy. He was a classmate of Admirals Franklin and Ramsey at Annapolis in 1842, when he entered the navy as a midshipman. During President Cleveland's first administration he was minister to Koren and since resigning that office he has lived a quiet life engaging in literary work. Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/p/parker5012gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb