Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-18
DR PARRY'S SUDDEN ENDING
The Community Shocked at News of Death of Well Known Clergyman.


 Dr F. J. Parry, pastor of the First Baptist church, died suddenly yester- day afternoon at his home on North Willow street. He had not been feel ing well for some time past, still he was not seriously i'll. He was at the postoffice shortly before he was strick- en and felt then that his old enemy, belliary collie, was about to make an other attack upon him, hastened home and called Dr Brown. About 4 o'clock he felt easier and the physician re tired. Half an hour later he was seized with another bad spell and died before medical aid could be received. He suffered considerably from this trouble for the past ten years. Last Sunday morning while preaching to his congregation his condition became so serious that the service was inter- rupted and he had to be assisted to his homo
 Dr Parry was born March Is, 1S47, in Philadelphia He attended the public schools in Philadelphia and spew two vears in the seminary in Lewisburg, Pa, before entering Buck nell college, from which institution he graduated in 1872. He spent two years in the Colgate Theological sem mary at Hamilton, N Y, and upon leaving that institution he went abroad and visited England, Germany and France. His first pastorate was in Cincinnati as pastor of the Third Baptist church. His next charge was at Cooperstown, N. Y, in 1877, where he was the pastor of the First Baptist church. He remained with this church for five years, and from there went to the First Baptist church of Burling- ton, Vermont, November 6, 1882, with which he remained five years. From Burlington Dr Parry went to Brattle- boro, Vt, where he was pastor of the Baptist church for eight years. From there he was called to the Alexandria Avenue Baptist church in New York city. Here Dr Parry labored until he was called by the First Baptist church of this city
 Dr Parry was a man of scholarly attainments and commanded the re- spect and esteem of all good citizens. He was just the kind of man Water bury needs in the ministry. He had implicit faith in his own creed, but this did not prompt him to assail those who didn't happen to look at things from his standpoint, so that while he was a Baptist of Baptists, still he commanded the respect and esteem of every soul who knew him. Waterbury can lily afford to lose such an able thinker and charming gentle man.
 He leaves a widow and one son, Francis. clerk at the Shoe Hardware Go on Brown street
 Speaking on the death of Dr Parry, Father Slocum, pastor of the Immac- ulate Conception church, said this af- ternoon that he learned the sad tid- ings with profound regret. He re- garGed the death of Dr Parry as a great loss, not only to his own church but to the public. He was a man of brain and heart, he said. kindly, char itable and actuated by a motive for good in all his efforts. This opinion appears to be general and so far as one can judge by what is being said with reference to the dead pastor of the First Baptist church he enjoyed a larger share of public confidence than comes to most men of his profession This was due in a measure to the fact that he had no use for bigots and al ways stood ready to accord to others the rights and privileges which he claimed for himself and those who be, 1ieved with him. The funeral will probably be held Sunday afternoon.