John Parker

The author of this publication is Theodore Parker, not Rev. Theodore Parker. Theodore Parker was a nephew of Dr. Moses Greeley Parker, president-General of the American Sons of the American Revolution in 1908. Dr. Parker was a colleague of Maj. Gen. Gov. Benjamin Franklin Butler. They served at Fort Monroe during the US Civil War. Dr. Parker discovered electricity traveled spirally. He was a pioneer in photography and telephony. He was president of the New England Telegraph and Telephone Company, and an associate of Alexander Graham Bell, father in law of Gilbert Grosvenor and botanist Dr. David G. Fairchild, who removed from Washington, D.C. to Coconut Grove, Florida in 1928