Sydenham Clark Parsons (1826-1876)
of the Parsons & Wells Pharmacy, Northampton, Massachusetts
His son-in-law, Arthur Curtiss James, gave $70,000 in his name towards the million dollar fund for Smith College. As a result, Smith College has the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History and American Studies, and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of Religion, Buddhism, and South Asian Studies. He married Harriet, daughter of Richard Tower Morton, of East Whately and had six children. The two eldest sons died in childhood and they were survived by four daughters.
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Western Massachusetts; a History, 1636-1925, Volume 3.