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)
Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1860
Full name
Joseph Benson Parker
Place of Birth
Bloomfield, PA
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.
Dickinson College
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