A. Parke Burgess

Born: Circa 1835, Litchfield, New York.
Died: August 30, 1901, at his son’s home in Newark, New York. He and his wife Jenette were killed in a train wreck on the Northern Central Railroad between Fairville and Zurich, New York. They had been returning home from a week’s outing at their summer cottage at Lake Bluff, Sodus Point, on Lake Ontario.
Buried: Newark Cemetery, Newark, New York.

Son of abolitionist Seth Burgess, Parke attended Hamilton College, and taught mathematics there for a while. He served at the East Mexico Presbyterian Church (Old Pratham), Oswego County, New York; in East Dennis, Massachusetts; Duxbury, Massachusetts. He also edited The Temperance Press out of Boston, Massachusetts, lived for a year in Syracuse, New York, working for the New York State Temperance Society, and was editor-in-chief of the Watchword, a weekly family newspaper. In 1874, he moved to Newark, New York, where he served as pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church for 26 years. He later took a position as Superintendent of the Syracuse District of the Anti-Saloon League. In 1884 Monroe College awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree. His works include:

Songs in the Night (Gazette Press, 1902)

Sources:
Findagrave, accessed 17 Nov 2016

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