The age-herald., 1901-09-01
An Alabama Woman of Genius.

An Alabama Woman of Genlus' One of the few women born to wealth who receive large material compensation for their own work is Mrs. Clara Weaver Parrish. a fair Alabama woman wbo Is now winning fame and making a fortune 1 by her labor in art. She Is engaged ny Tiffany, the famous art glass manufac- turer of New York.
 Mrs. Parrish is the widow of the late William P Parrish. a Wall street. stock broker, who with his gifted wife, dwelt in Birmingham in 1888, and she has here many friends who rememoer her iappi'Y. Her father was William M. Weaver who until his recent death, dwelt in Selma, and granddaughter of Philip J. Weaver of Dallas County.
 This Philip J. Weaver, Mrs. Parrish s grandfather, was the wealthiest nan and largest slave-owner of Alabama, ana with the exception of General Wade Hampton of South Carolina, and possibly two or three offers. he owned more re- gro slaves than any other man in the South. Literally, he owned "a regiment of slaves" for they numbered more than thousand, and they titled many square miles of the most fertile land Of the Black Belti
 The result of the war between the states destroyed practically all of the vast family fortune of the Weavers. In the after time, Miss Clara Weaver, grand daughter of that old prince Of the earth" Philip Weaver. to paraphrase Ju- da P. Benjamin, the illustrious Louisiana Jew, married William P Parish Alter dwelling a year or two in Birmingham' MT. and Mrs. Parish removed to New York. where Mir. Parish became broker
 Mrs. Parrish was in love with art and she labored in it as only the real lover of art can labor She is now the greatest artist Alabama has given to the world. Tiffany is the first decorator of America and he keeps Mrs. Parrish in his employ regularly, paying her large salary
 Recently she designed the first stained glass window ever constructed from de- signs made by an Alabamian. This win dow was for a memorial church recently erected In Uniontown to the memory or the late Congressman A. c. Davidson. The inscription upon the window reans' ITO the glory of God and in blessed mem ory of Adele Caldwell Davidson, wife of Perkins Ellis.'
 Referring to this window of Uniontown, a writer in the Montgomery Advertiser says
 "There are three divisions, and in the large central panel, against background
 ola de ha cr1pam in velous hues. stands the figure of the risen Lord. clothed In white raiment Of luminous pearly tint, field of sWaying lilies about his feet and one hand raised in the blessing of those sublime words: T am the Resurrection and the Life.' The divine radiance which the artist has happily set in the halo about His head seems to have caught the glow of the ris- ing sun, only to deepen with advancing day, and so shine on through the twilight with heavenly light all it's own. This pe- culiar effect has attracted much notice.
 'In the left panel one sees, beyond the shimmer of lilies and the lush of green trees, the white roofs of Jerusalem girt about with purpling hills, while on the right hand, in deepening violet hues against a ruddy sky is cross-crowned Cal vary. All this wonder of purple and gold, glowing green and rich bronze, peacock blues and resplendent pearl, might have proved but warning colors in less skillful hands. but the artist, Clara Weaver Par rish, has mingled them with a gracious harmony which bears witness to that gift of color conceded her by fellow-artists. The seven great chancel windows put in by the Tiffany Glass Company at St. Michael's and All Angels, New York city, were colored by her and are considered especially beautiful. These, as we'll as this memorial window at Uniontown, which Montague Castle has so successfully exc cuted for Mrs. Parrish, are examples of the new American school of stained glass;"