Theophilus Parsons (professor)

Theophilus Parsons (1797–1882) was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870.

Theophilus Parsons
Born	1797
Died	1882 (1883) (aged 85)
Education	Harvard College (1815)
Children	Emily Elizabeth Parsons
Parent	Theophilus Parsons (father)
Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
In office 1848–1870
Succeeded by	Christopher Columbus Langdell

Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines. He wrote a biography of his father, an American jurist who was also named Theophilus Parsons (1749–1813). It was published in Boston in 1859.^[1] He also edited and published the Civil War letters of his daughter, Emily Elizabeth Parsons, a nurse and administrator of Benton Barracks military hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.^[2]

He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.^[3]