A priminent railroad attorney. An extended summary of his career appears in Stuart, Inglis. "The Mayflower ancestry of Elizabeth Ely Goodrich and her descendants." Rhinebeck, N.Y. : Rhinebeck Gazette Press, ca. 1932.
Unmarried.
He was the son of the Honorable Cortlandt Parker of the class of 1836, a prominent and distinguished advocate at the Bar of the State for over fifty years, and of Elizabeth Wolcott Stites. He was born in Newark, N.J., August 17, 1857; attended the Newark Academy, St. Mark's School Southboro, Mass., and the Pingry School, Elizabeth, N.J. In college he won the gold medal at the Sophomore Exhibition. He was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. After graduation he studied law in the Columbia Law School17, taking the degree of LL.B. in 1881. he was admitted to the Bar in June 1881, and practiced with the firm of A. Wayne Parker. He resides in Newark, N.J. He served for a short time as United States District Attorney. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and in politics was a Republican. His brother, General James Parker, was a member of the class of 1874 until he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point (findagrave.com)