Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-25
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ISAAC A. PARK Err.
Death OF Native Of Vermont Who Had
Done a Notable Work as a Teacher Of
the Young.

There died in Galesburg, ILL.,, recently
native of Vermont who had done such
valuable and long continued and perma
nent work in the education of young men
and women as it is given to few men to
perform. This was Isaac Augustus
Parker, who was born in South Wood
stock in 1925, and was descended on
both sides from such sterling Pilgrim and
Revolutionary ancestr" gave him the
right, by birth, to the strength of in
telleCt, the moral rectitude, and the
earnestness, gentleness and simplicity
which were his lifelong characteristics
He grew up as a farmers boy and was
graduated from Dartmouth college in the
class of 1853. In the fall of that year he
went to Glover. in orleans county, as
principal of the Orleans Liberal Insti-
tute, and remained there until 1868, when
he was called to the professorship of an
cient languages at Lombard university
in Galesburg, and where the remainder
of his life was spent. His years at
Glover We're notably fruitful ones, not
only for the high intellectual standard
which he set for the school, but even
more for the quiet but strong and ire
sistible force of his own personality in
forming the characters of the large num-
Der of young men and women who there
came under his tuition. The same in
tluence of thoroughness, probity and up
rghtness was the predominating factor
in his contact with the students during
all the years at Lomhard-a fact which
was abundantly recognized when. i'm 1898,
at the close of 40 years of service in the
chair of Greek language and literature,
a reception and banquet were given in
his honor by the faculty and alumni. In
June, 1908, his completion of so years
of service for the college was celebrated
as part of the commencement program.
At this time, feeling the weight OF ad-
vancing years. he resigned his charge
and had since lived in quiet retirement
in his home in Galesburg, devoting him
self to those intellectual pursuits which
had been the pleasure no less than the
work of his life. AS one of its trustees
the Galesburg public library had the
benefit of his wide knowledge of books
for long term of years and until his
death
1t was a rare pleasure to one of his
od-t time Glover students, who visited
him in his home in the early spring of
1911. to find him in comfortable health,
mentally as alert and as actively inter-
ested in affairs as ever, and to observe,
a S he went about among the people, the
evident love and esteem in which he was
held by the Galesburg community.
Dartmouth college gave Prof Parker
the degree of Master of Arts in 1856, and
Buchtel college that of Doctor of Phlos-
ophy in 1892. He always retained
cordial interest in the friends and asso-
Citations of his early manhood. though
his visits to the East had not been fire.
quent. on the occasion of one of these
visits, in August, 1895, his former stu
dents al Glover held reunion. and the
people of the village gave him recep-
tion which overflowed with expressions
of goodwin and appreciative remem-
brance In June, 1908, he came back to
Dartmouth to attend a reunion of his
class So years after graduation.
While resident in Glover Mr. Parker
married Miss Sarah A. Labaree, ma
tive of Weathersfield, she being then
the preceptress OF the institute. 4
daughter was born to them there who
died in 1891. A son, William Augustus.
born in Galesburg, is now the chief en-
gineer of the ST. Joseph (MoD & Grand
Island railway. Mrs. Parker died in 1889.
Professor Parker having begun teach
ing when he was II, his life work had
covered period of IS years, and IL was
well said of him. upon his retirement,
that the word teacher applied to him
''as well as II did to Agassiz, who wished
to be remembered as a teacher" A
sane serene. useful and kindly life went
out when the final summons, due TO the
gradual decline of old age, came on the
Sth of October.