author

Francis J. (Francis Jewett) Parker

1825–1909

Best remembered for writing a detailed history of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, this nineteenth-century author also compiled family genealogy, blending careful research with a strong sense of lived history.

1 Audiobook

The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry

The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry

by Francis J. (Francis Jewett) Parker

About the author

Francis Jewett Parker was an American author and compiler born in 1825 and died in 1909. The works that can be readily confirmed today identify him as the author of The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry: Whence It Came; Where It Went; What It Saw, and What It Did, published in Boston in 1880.

He also compiled Genealogy of the Ainsworth Families in America, published in 1894. Taken together, those books suggest a writer deeply interested in preserving both public history and family history, with a practical, documentary approach.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his dates and published work was limited in the sources I could confirm, so this overview stays close to the record that is clearly documented.