Parker, Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson Parker, born on June 20, 1841 in Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania, entered Dickinson in 1856 and pursued a career in medicine. He graduated from a medical college in New York and entered the Navy as an assistant surgeon in March 1863. He married in 1868 and after a long career as a doctor he retired in 1903 as a rear admiral with credit to his service in the Civil War. He died on October 21, 1915. (By Brandon Rothenberg)
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Dickinson Connection
Class of 1860
    Full name
    Joseph Benson Parker
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    2
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Military
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Military
    Union Navy
    US military (Post-Civil War)

    Joseph Benson Parker (Dickinson Alumni Record)

    Reference
    Parker, Joseph Benson — Born June 20, 1841, Bloomfield, Perry County, Pa.; p., Joseph and Mary (Shearer) Parker; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1856; A. B., 1860, A. M., 1863; M. D., New York medical college; surgeon; entered navy as assistant surgeon, March, 1863; past assistant surgeon, 1867-76; surgeon, 1876; medical director; 1898; retired, 1903, with rank of rear admiral on account of age and service in Civil War; contributed to medical reports; Sigma Chi; B. L. society; married, Oct. 15, 1868, to Margaret J. Yorke, Salem, N. J.; children, Mary Shearer, Eleanor Yorke. Address, Philadelphia, Pa.
    George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 190.
    How to Cite This Page: "Parker, Joseph Benson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6349.