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JOSEPH SAUNDERS PARRY
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JOSEPH SAUNDERS PARRY, who has been actively and successfully
engaged in the practice of law at Hoboken, N. J., since November, 1886, was
born in Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pa., April 8, 1857. He is the
son of Thomas and Lydia (Conard) Parry. a grandson of Isaac and Mary
Parry and Jonathan and Hannah Conard, and a descendant of the Parry
family who came to America about 1681, and who, being followers of William
Penn, settled near Philadelphia. Both the Parrys and Conards have
been prominent in the history of Eastern Pennsylvania, being front the first
substantial citizens, and exerting in their respective communities a
wholesome influence. Being members of the Society of Friends, their
standards of honesty, integrity, and industry, as well as their purity of
character and love of liberty, were moving factors in the general growth
and development of the region and are still firmly implanted in local associations.
Mr. Parry was educated in the common schools, at the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia, and at the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Millersville. from which he was graduated in 1879. Between 1879 and 1882 he was engaged in teaching in Pennsylvania. He pursued his legal studies in the office of Judge Joseph H. Gaskill, of Mount Holly, N. J., and remained there until his admission to the bar as an attorney at the June term of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1886. In February, 1890, he was admitted as a counselor. Mr. Parry entered upon the active practice of his profession at Hoboken, Hudson County, in November, 1886, and by close attention to business has acquired an honorable standing at the bar. Mr. Parry takes a deep interest in public affairs, and liberally encourages every object which has the welfare and prosperity of the community at heart. He is a public spirited citizen, a man of acknowledged ability and enterprise, a Past Master of Euclid Lodge, No. 136, F. and A. M., and a mem ber of the Columbia Club of Hoboken, in which city he resides. He was married, on the 31st of March, 1897, to Miss Sarah P. Willets.
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