Theophilus Parsons (professor)

Theophilus Parsons
Born 1797
Died 1882 (aged 85)
Education Harvard College (1815)
Children Emily Elizabeth Parsons
Parent
Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
In office
1848–1870
Succeeded by Christopher Columbus Langdell
Portrait of Theophilus Parsons, by August Edouart, ca.1842

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 Swedenborgian doctrines. He wrote a biography of his father, an American jurist who was also named Theophilus Parsons (1749–1813). It was published in Boston in 1859. He also edited and published the Civil War letters of his daughter, Emily Elizabeth Parsons, a nurse and administrator of Benton Barracks military hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.

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