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Thomas William Parsons
1819 - 1892, Scituate
LC Heading: Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892
Biography:
s. Thomas William and Asenath (Read) P.; attended Harvard Med. Sch.; studied in Europe, 1836; m. Anna (or Hannah) Allen, 1857. Became dentist, 1844; translator Dante’s Inferno, published with Dore’s illustrations, Boston, 1865; translator part of Dante’s Purgatorio, published in The Catholic World, 1879-83; best known poems include: On a Bust of Dante, published 1841; Paradisi Gloria. author volumes of verse: Ghetto di Roma, 1854; The Magnolia, 1866; The Shadow of the Obelisk, London, 1872; The Old House at Sudbury, 1870. Death: Died Scituate, Mass., Sept. 3, 1892; buried Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
("Parsons, Thomas William". 2009. In Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984, MarquisWho'sWho. New Providence: Marquis Who's Who LLC.Accessed December 2015.)
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