Edwin Wallace Parker

Edwin Wallace Parker (January 21, 1833 – June 4, 1901) was an American Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop.

Edwin Wallace Parker
Born	(1833-01-21)January 21, 1833 St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States
Died	June 4, 1901(1901-06-04) (aged 68)
Nationality	American
Employer	Evangelical Methodist Church
Title	missionary bishop

Biography

He was born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He was educated at the St. Johnsbury Academy and at the General Biblical Institute at Concord, New Hampshire, joining the Vermont Conference of his denomination in 1857.

In 1859 he sailed for India and spent the rest of his life there. He was stationed first in the Bijnor district, and later he was for several years superintendent of the Moradabad mission schools. On the organization of the India Conference in 1864 he became presiding elder. In 1900 he was elected Missionary Bishop of Southern Asia.

Parker Intermediate College, established in 1865–66, a school in Moradabad, was named after him.

References

• Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Parker, Edwin Wallace" . Encyclopedia Americana.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Further reading

• Messmore, J. H. (1903). The Life of Edwin Wallace Parker, D. D.: Missionary Bishop of Southern Asia, Forty-one Years a Missionary in India. New York : Eaton & Mains ; Cincinnati : Jennings & Pye. LCCN 03031012. OCLC 6475424.
• Parker, bp Edwin Wallace (1872). Muntak̲h̲abāt i gīt (in Urdu). Select hymns.