Family
On the 27 August 1834, he married Harriet Langdon Roberts, daughter of diplomatist Edmund Roberts, emissary to the Far East, and granddaughter of Woodbury Langdon, one of New Hampshire's representatives to the Continental Congress. They had four children, among them General Amasa J. Parker, Jr. of the National Guards of the State of New York, and Mary Parker who married Erastus Corning (1827–1897) and was the mother of Edwin Corning and Parker Corning.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying “Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.””
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)
“One theme links together these new proposals for family policy—the idea that the family is exceedingly durable. Changes in structure and function and individual roles are not to be confused with the collapse of the family. Families remain more important in the lives of children than other institutions. Family ties are stronger and more vital than many of us imagine in the perennial atmosphere of crisis surrounding the subject.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)
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—Grace Baruch (20th century)