Researching John Parkhurst
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 313 people with the Parkhurst surname? In that year Parkhurst was ranked number 3266 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Parkhurst on Ancestry
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| Did you know that there are currently 281 people with the Parkhurst surname in the UK? Parkhurst is now ranked number 3778 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called John Parkhurst
John Adelbert Parkhurst
John Adelbert Parkhurst (September 24, 1861 – March 1, 1925) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Dixon, Illinois, and attended public schools in the state at Marengo and Wheaton College. He then attended Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana, earning a B.Sc. in 1886. For the following two years he taught mathematics at the same school. In 1888 he married Anna Greenleaf.
He returned to Marengo, Illinois where he kept a small, private observatory that he used primarily for variable star observation. The Yerkes Observatory was built nearby in 1897, and in 1898 he joined the staff as a volunteer research assistant. By 1900 he was appointed as an assistant. He remained on the staff for 25 years, later becoming an associate professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in practical astronomy.
His most important work was in the specialty of photometry. He also participated in three eclipse expeditions, but only enjoyed clear seeing conditions on the last (1925). During his career he published about 100 papers on astronomy, both before and during his time at Yerkes. In 1905 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. On February 27, 1925, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died a few days later at his home in Williams Bay. He was survived by his wife, Anna.
The crater Parkhurst on the Moon is named after him.
Source: John Adelbert Parkhurst, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Gibson Parkhurst
John Gibson Parkhurst (April 17, 1824 – May 6, 1906) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later was as diplomat. He was born the youngest of eight children of Stephen and Sally (née Gibson) Parkhurst in Oneida Castle, New York. One of his older siblings died before he was born.
Parkhurst served as Colonel of the 9th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment and became Provost Marshal General for the Department of the Cumberland; being [[Brevet (military)}brevetted]] to Brigadier General when the war ended. The lawyer served as United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1866 to 1869 and United States Minister to Belgium from 1888 to 1889.
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