| DEADWOOD,
SouthDakota June 26, 1908 - After an illness of three weeks, Congressman
William H. Parker of Deadwood died today of dropsy and liver trouble.
Burial will be in the Arlington National Cemetery.
William H. Parker was born at Keene, New Hempshire
on May 5, 1847. In 1874 he was appointed by President Grant, Collector
of Internal Revenue of Colorado Territory. Later he wasappointed
United States Attorney of the sameState.
PARKER, William Henry, a Representative
from South Dakota; born in Keene, Cheshire County, N.H., May 5, 1847; served
in the Union Army from June 24, 1861, to October 16, 1866; was graduated
from the law department of Columbian College (now George Washington University),
Washington, D.C., in 1868 and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia the same year; appointed collector of internal
revenue of Colorado Territory by President Grant June 24, 1874; resigned
in July 1876; appointed United States attorney of Colorado; moved to Deadwood,
Territory of Dakota (now South Dakota), in July 1877 and practiced law;
member of the constitutional convention of the proposed State of South
Dakota June 30, 1885; elected a member of the State house of representatives
in 1889; prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County 1903-1907; elected to
the Sixtieth Congress and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in
Deadwood, Lawrence County, S.Dak., on June 26, 1908; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
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