Title:

Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons family papers, approximately 1880-1950

Creator/Contributor:

Parsons (Family, creator, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

Parsons, Edward Lambe, 1868-

Creator/Contributor:

Parsons, Bertha DeForest Brush, 1872-1935

Creator/Contributor:

Brush (Family), creator.

Collection consists primarily of family correspondence, especially letters between Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons during their courtship (in the 1890s) and marriage. The collection also includes a substantial clutch of letters written by Edward Lambe Parsons to his mother, Helen Clement White Parsons, and some letters sent from Bertha to her family. The collection includes some genealogical information about the Parsons, Brush, Trumbull and Bruen families as well as materials relating to other Parsons family members, including the children of Edward and Bertha.

Date:

1880 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Parsons, Edward Lambe -- 1868- -- Archives

Parsons, Bertha DeForest Brush -- 1872-1935 -- Archives

Parsons, Harriet -- 1901-1991

Parsons family -- Archives

Brush family -- Archives

Episcopal Church -- Clergy

Episcopal Church -- California -- Bishops

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.

Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons family papers, BANC MSS 2021/132, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Gift of Reginald H. Barrett ; September 2021.

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Libary.

Edward L. Parsons, 1868-1960, served as pastor at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley, California, 1904-1919. He was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Francisco, 1919-1924, and Bishop of California, 1924-1941. Parsons was a strong activist for social welfare concerns, and in the promotion of Christian union. Edward Lambe Parsons was born in New York on May 18, 1868. Intending to become a lawyer, he attended Yale University in 1885, where he and his roommate, Gifford Pinchot, served as deacons of their class. After graduation Parsons decided instead to attend Union Seminary in New York. Although his family on both sides were Presbyterians, his petition to the Presbyterian ministry was rejected. He consulted with Bishop William Lawrence, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, and attended Episcopal Theological Seminary at Cambridge, graduating in 1894. Parsons spent a year with Rector William R. Huntington at Grace Church in New York City, and in September 1896 became rector of a small church in Menlo Park, California. To supplement his salary he taught philosophy at Stanford University. In 1904 Parsons was called to serve as rector at St. Mark's in Berkeley, where he remained for the next fifteen years.

Bertha DeForest Brush was the daugther of George Jarvis Brush and Harriet Silliman Trumbull of New Haven, Connecticut. She married Edward Lambe Parsons in 1897. Together, they had four children: Arthur Wellesley, Harriet Trumbull, Helen Clement, and Lorain de Forest.

In English.

Container list available upon request.

Type:

Love letters.

Family papers.

print

17 (13 1

English

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Origin:

California

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.