Physician
Centurion, 1876–1907
Born 14 April 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 24 June 1907 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Lakeview Cemetery
, New Canaan, Connecticut
Proposed by Gilbert M. Speir and Charles P. Russel
Elected 5 November 1876 at age thirty
Archivist’s Note: Son of Willard Parker; brother-in-law of Benjamin F. Butler; uncle of Charles Butler and Willard Parker Butler
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Willard Parker was for thirty-one years a Centurion in the full meaning of the term. His leisure was spent here, his friendships were largely made and cultivated here, and his acquaintance with the men of his native city was conterminous with most of what is eminent here. He bore a brilliant name with modesty, rejoiced in the usefulness of an important practice as a physician among those who had been patients of his famous father or their children, and found keen enjoyment in the by-paths of literature, science, and art. He was a graduate from two schools of Columbia, knew and loved the ancient institutions of the city, treasured their traditions, and perpetuated as far as in him lay what was best and most beautiful in the formative influences which they exert. His nature was cordial, and those of his own and other callings to whom his intimacy was given remember his presence with great contentment.
William Milligan Sloane
1908 Century Association Yearbook