Francis Parkman

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author historian person

Francis Parkman was a 19th-century American historian best known for his multi-volume works on the French and British struggle for control of North America, including "France and England in North America."

Aliases (1)

Francis Parkman Jr. ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author → historian → person →
buriedIn	Mount Auburn Cemetery →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1823-09-16 →
dateOfDeath	1893-11-08 →
dateOfMarriage	1852 →
educatedAt	Harvard College → Harvard Law School →
familyName	Parkman →
fieldOfWork	French and Indian War → French colonial history → colonial history → history of North America →
fullName	Francis Parkman Jr. →
gender	male →
genre	historical writing →
givenName	Francis →
hasPartInSeries	France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV → France and England in North America: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West → France and England in North America: Montcalm and Wolfe → France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World → France and England in North America: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century → France and England in North America: The Old Régime in Canada →
knownFor	multi-volume history of France and England in North America → narrative history style →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
livedIn	Boston, Massachusetts, United States → Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences →
movement	19th-century American historiography →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV → France and England in North America → La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West → Montcalm and Wolfe → Pioneers of France in the New World → The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century → The Old Régime in Canada → The Oregon Trail →
occupation	essayist → historian → writer →
placeOfBirth	Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
placeOfDeath	Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
positionHeld	Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University →
religion	Unitarianism →
spouse	Catherine Scollay Bigelow →
subjectOf	Francis Parkman Prize →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Statue of Francis Parkman (Boston) →	depicts
Francis Parkman ("Francis Parkman Jr.") →	fullName
Forest Hills Cemetery →	hasNotableBurial
Hollis Hall →	hasNotableResident
Statue of Francis Parkman (Boston) →	honors