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<p> a Congregational minister, who was employed also in-missionary labors, was born July 18, 1792, in Goshen, Mass. He graduated at Middlebury [[College]] in 1814; was ordained Sept. 3, 1817, and labored under the [[Vermont]] Missionary [[Society]] a year, when he was sent on an agency into [[Palestine]] by the American Board. He sailed with Rev. P. Fisk for [[Smyrna]] Nov. 3, 1819, and arrived Jan. 15, 1820, whence they went to the island of Scio, and in November Mr. Parsons started for Palestine, reaching [[Jerusalem]] Feb. 12, 1821, where he remained until May 8. After suffering severe illness on the island of Syra, he reached Smyrna Dec. 3, and sailed to Alexandria, where he died, Feb. 11, 1822. Mr. Parsons was a good scholar, and very amiable and interesting in his manners. His life was thoroughly devoted to benevolent work. His biography was written by his brother-in-law, D. V. Morton (1824). See also Amer. Miss. Mem. p. 263; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2:644; Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1866, p. 221; [[Christian]] Monthly Spectator, 7:316. </p>
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<p> a Presbyterian minister, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, August 20, 1779; graduated from Williams College in 1801; subsequently spent two years as tutor, and trained for the ministry under Dr. Hyde of Massachusetts. He was licensed in 1807, and the same year became pastor of the Church in Marcellus, N.Y., where he remained twenty-six years. He then supplied Tully for one year, and Otisco for another; next went to his former charge in Marcellus, held it six years longer, and then spent the remainder of his ministry with the Third Church in Marcellus, and at Borodino. He died November 20, 1864. See Mears, [[Presbyterianism]] in Central New York, page 628. </p>
 
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<ref name="term_54820"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/parsons,+levi,+d.d. Levi Parsons from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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Levi Parsons [1]

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, August 20, 1779; graduated from Williams College in 1801; subsequently spent two years as tutor, and trained for the ministry under Dr. Hyde of Massachusetts. He was licensed in 1807, and the same year became pastor of the Church in Marcellus, N.Y., where he remained twenty-six years. He then supplied Tully for one year, and Otisco for another; next went to his former charge in Marcellus, held it six years longer, and then spent the remainder of his ministry with the Third Church in Marcellus, and at Borodino. He died November 20, 1864. See Mears, Presbyterianism in Central New York, page 628.

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  1. ↑ Levi Parsons from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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