Author: Leonard Fletcher Parker

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Published: 1866

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Single bound volume containing several of Parker's addresses and sermons, including "President Grant's Des Moines Address," Parker's defense of President Grant's September 29, 1875 address. Some of Parker's writings are included, such as his published biographical sketch of Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, and his paper, "Higher Education in Iowa," published by the Bureau of Education in Washington, D.C. in 1893. Newspaper clippings and correspondence are found between pamphlets, letters of congratulations for family and friends, and a lengthy memorial to his wife, Sarah. Of note is the published account of the meeting of the twenty-second Iowa Infantry volunteers on September 22, 1886 in Iowa City. these materials are dated 1866 to 1907.