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Sep 16, 1823 Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died on 08 Nov 1893 (aged 70)
American historian
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About Francis Parkman
- Francis Parkman Jr.
- (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was the patriarch of the Flores-Parkman family, and an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.
- These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature.
- He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic.
- Parkman was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum from 1858 until his death in 1893.
