Edward Lutwyche Parker
Edward Lutwyche Parker (1785–1850), was a United States Presbyterian clergyman. Rev. Edward L. Parker was a brother-in-law of Rev. Abishai Alden, nephew of Barnabas and Mary Patterson Alden, grandaunt of Key West Mayor (Col.) Alexander Patterson, grandfather of Eva Patterson Braxton. Eva was a daughter of George and Ida Euphemia Bethel Patterson. Ida was a daughter of Key West (Florida) mayor Winer Bethel. Life He was born in Litchfield, New Hampshire, on 28 July 1785. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1807, and studied divinity at Hanover, New Hampshire, and subsequently at Thetford, Vermont, and Salem, Massachusetts. Edward was a son of Dr. Jonathan and Dorothy Coffin Parker. Dr. Jonathan Parker was the son of Rev Thomas Parker, minister at Dracut, Massachusetts. Rev. Parker's father was Capt or Lt. Josiah Parker, son of Capt. James Parker (b. 1617). Capt. Parker was an ancestor of Mrs. Major Samuel Lawrence. Sarah Loring resided at 267 Clarendon Street in Boston Back Bay, Massachusetts. Alexander Hamilton Rice Sr. as Boston mayor, led the development of Boston Back Bay area. The first land development company in Boston, Massachusetts was the Mt Vernon Properties. John Dandridge Henley Luce also resided at 267 Clarendon Street. John father