When Howland Parsons was born in 1809, in Sempronius, Cayuga, New York, United States, his father, Benjamin B. Parsons, was 37 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Phillips, was 32. He married Samantha Ervin on 28 May 1831, in Brownhelm, Lorain, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died about 1850, in Greenville Township, Bureau, Illinois, United States, at the age of 42.
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English: occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson ).
English: many early examples are found with the prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson's house.
English: post-medieval variant of Parson , with excrescent -s. Alternatively, Parson may be a shortened form of Parsons.
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