Dr.
Theophilus
Parsons
Jr.
Born in Newbury, MA
Ancestors 
Son of Theophilus Parsons
and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Parsons
Brother of
Lucy Greenleaf Parsons, Thedore Parsons, Charlotte Parsons, William Parsons and Henry Parsons
Husband of
Catherine Amory (Chandler) Parsons
— married
7 May 1833 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Emily Elizabeth Parsons, William John Parsons, Catherine Parsons, Theophilus Parsons, Charles Chauncy Parsons, Mary Sabra Parsons and Caroline Parsons
Died
at age 84
in Cambridge
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Biography
Theophilus Parsons, Jr. was a prominent Swedenborgian pastor whose writings in the New Jerusalem Magazine inspired many a New England Transcendentalist, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson. Parsons was the 1st Dane Professor at Harvard Law School (1848-1870) and, from 1824 to 1826, edited the U.S. Literary Gazette. His father was an influential Massachusetts jurist, a founder of the Boston Athenaeum, and a fellow of Harvard.
Sources
Ancestry.com; JMGillettBrookfield collection – in 2014 held by Ken Gillett; ‘Historic Homes …’ edited by Crane, available on internet.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73235328
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