History of Bethel, (Windsor County) Vermont United States of America

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Joel Parker, clergyman and educator, was born in Bethel, Vt., Aug. 27, 1799. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1824, and attended Auburn Theological seminary, 1824-26. He was married, May 9, 1826, to Harriet Phelps of Lenox, N.Y. He was pastor of the Third Presbyterian church in Rochester, N.Y., 1826-30, being ordained in February, 1827. He organized and was pastor of the Dey Street Presbyterian church, New York city, 1830-33; was pastor of the First Presbyterian church, New Orleans, La., 1833-38, and of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, 1838-40. He was the second president of Union Theological seminary, New York city, and its first professor of sacred rhetoric, 1840-42; pastor of the Clinton Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1842-52; of the Bleecker Street church, New York city, 1852-62, and of the Park church, Newark, N.J., 1862-68. He retired from the ministry in 1868 on account of age. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1839. He was a frequent contributor to the religious press, served at one time as associate editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review and edited Sermons of the Rev. John W. Adams, With a Memoir (1851). He is the author of: Lectures on Unitarianism (1829); Morals for a Young Student (1832); Invitation to True Happiness (1843); Reasonings of a Pastor (1849); Notes on Twelve Psalms (1849); Sermons (1852), and Pastor's Initiatory Catechism (1855). He died in New York city, May 2, 1873.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Bethel, (Windsor County) Vermont

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