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Francis Parkman

American historian
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Wilbur R. Jacobs
Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1965–88. Research Scholar, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Author of Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero and others.
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Born:
Sept. 16, 1823, Boston, Mass., U.S.
Died:
Nov. 8, 1893, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (aged 70)
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Hall of Fame (1915)

Francis Parkman (born Sept. 16, 1823, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 8, 1893, Jamaica Plain, Mass.) was an American historian noted for his classic seven-volume history of France and England in North America, covering the colonial period from the beginnings to 1763. Parkman was the son of Francis Parkman, a leading Unitarian minister of Boston. As a boy, he met many of his father’s literary friends and read widely in the family library. He was taught Greek, Latin, and mathematics at the Chauncy Place School in Boston. At Harvard, Parkman, a talented linguist, read almost as many books in foreign languages ...(100 of 1120 words)

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