JAMES HILL PARMELEE, son of Capt. Ezra and Sybil (Hill)
Parmelee, was born in Newport, N H., on the 15th of May, 1783.
His parents were nativeB of Eillingworth, Conn.
After his graduation he taught in New Berne, N. C, for two
years or more, and subsequently in 1812 joined the first class
which was formed in Princeton Theol. Seminary. In the year
1813-14 he was employed as a tutor in the College of New Jersey,
and in the spring of 1815 was licensed to preach by the Presbytery
of New Brunswick. From 1815 to 1819 he taught in Baltimore
with unusual success. In 1816 he was married in Baltimore
to Priscilla Horn, a lady of English birth, who assisted him in
maintaining a school for young ladies. Mrs. Parmelee's health
obliged them to give up this school in 1820, and they removed to
Zanesville, Ohio, where she died in 1822.
He was ordained by the Presbytery of Lancaster, and spent
several years in pastoral service, and in the work of a home-missionary
and colporteur. During this time he removed to Duncan's
Falls, 0., where his residence continued till his death. In 1836
he was married to Catherine F., daughter of CoL Barker, of
Duchess Co, N. Y. She died in 1844, and he afterwards married
Miss Hannah Wilson, who survives him. His only child, a son by
his first wife, died in opening manhood.
Mr. Parmelee died, of pneumonia, at Duncan's Falls, on the 6th
of April, 1872, in his 89th year.
