Daniel Parker
From The Inspectors General of the United States Army, 1777-1903
Born(1782-01-29)January 29, 1782
Shirley, Massachusetts
DiedApril 5, 1846(1846-04-05) (aged 64)
Washington, D.C.
Place of Burial
Congressional Cemetery
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service/branchUnited States Army
Years of service1814–1822
RankBrigadier General
Commands heldAdjutant General of the U.S. Army
Inspector General of the U.S. Army
Paymaster General of the U.S. Army
Other workChief Clerk of the War Department

Daniel Parker (January 29, 1782, Shirley, Massachusetts[1] – April 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.[2]) made his career in the United States Department of War and the United States Army.

Biography

He was the son of Lieutenant James Parker and Sarah Dickinson.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801, read law, and was admitted to the bar in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He became chief clerk in the U. S. War Department in 1810. On 22 November 1814, he became adjutant general and inspector general of the U.S. Army. In 1821, he became paymaster general. In 1841 he returned to the War Department as chief clerk.[3]

His remains were buried 7 April 1846 in the Historic Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Vital Records of Shirley, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, New England Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1918, p. 74. "PARKER, Daniel, s. James and Sarah (Dickinson) B.R., Jan. 29, 1782."
  2. ^ Daniel d. 5 April 1846, Washington, D.C. ["Gen. Daniel Parker; Chief Clerk; War Department; Washington; Sunday"] (News Article) Date: 1846-04-09; Paper: Morning News "Gen, Daniel Parker, an officer of the last war, and for a time Chief Cleck of the War Department of Washington, died in that city on Sunday last."] ...also" [The National Intelligencer, April 5, 1846 "On Sunday evening, the 5th instant, in this city, after an illness of several weeks, General Daniel Parker. His friends and acquaintances are invited to attend his funeral from his residence on F street, at half past 3 o'clock this day (Tuesday), the 7th instant. General Parker was a native of Massachusetts. He came to this city before the commencement of the late war, to fill the responsible post of Chief Clerk of the War Department. From this arduous office, in the times in which he filled it, and where his signal services and extensive capacity for business were justly appreciated by the administration of the excellent Madison, Gen. P. was transferred to the office of Adjutant and Inspector General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General, which he held to the year 1821. In late years he was again in the chief clerkship of the Department of War. In every public office he was distinguished by exemplary devotion to official duty. In his last painful illness he possessed all his faculties to the end, and met death with a fortitude and resignation to which human nature, however sustained by courage and piety, is rarely equal".]
  3. ^ Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Parker, Daniel" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  4. ^ Interments in the Historic Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, Range 45, Site 45. "Parker, Gen. Daniel L. b. 29 Jan 1782 - d. 5 Apr 1846 R45/4'5"

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