Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Chapel for William B. Parker '97, editor, writer, and literary adviser, who died Saturday after a short illiness. Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, officiated.
For the last three years Mr. Parker had been associated with the Dental School as Secretary for Resources. He prepared for Harvard at Phillips Andover, and after graduation from Harvard became associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly. At one time he was a member of the Harvard faculty and was connected with Columbia from 1905 to 1908.
Among his literary works are numbered his biographies of Edward Roland Sill and Justin Morrill, his editing of Lowell's Anti-Slavery Papers, and contributions to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannics.
He was a member of the Harvard Club of Boston, the Players' Club of New York, and the Cosmos Club of Washington.
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