Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Parkinson, John Barber ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Smith Vickery http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0005998 November 5, 2014, 4:46 pm Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897 Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OE WISCONSIN. VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. JOHN BARBER PARKINSON, A. M., Vice-President of the University, professor of Constitutional and International Law, was born near Edwardsville, Madison county, Illinois, April 11, 1834; graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1860; was appointed instructor in 1861; was a regent of the university in 1866, appointed full professor—the first from the Alumni—in 1867, and vice-president in 1885; has been connected with the university over thirty years; several addresses of his read before the State Agricultural Society, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and other societies have been published; courses of lectures on International Law, English and American Constitutional Law and Political Economy have also been prepared, but have not yet been published. Additional Comments: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1897/parkinso1334gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb