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Herbert C. Parsons
Herbert Collins Parsons (1862-1941) was a journalist, author, and distinguished public servant in the commonwealth of Massachusetts who helped to develop one of the important public welfare service...view moreHerbert Collins Parsons (1862-1941) was a journalist, author, and distinguished public servant in the commonwealth of Massachusetts who helped to develop one of the important public welfare services. Born on January 15, 1862 in Northfield, Massachusetts, the son of Albert C. Parsons (1812-1902) and Susan Ellen Lane Parsons (1822-1890), Parsons began his career as editor of the Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts and other experience as a journalist. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 1896-1898 and then a state senator. He became a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Probation in 1912 and served on the Commission for two years before becoming state commissioner of probation from 1914-1932. He served as a consultant for the Wickersham Commission on Law Enforcement from 1929-1931. He was also a member of the State Commission for the Revision of Laws Relating to Children and served as president of the Massachusetts Society of Mental Hygiene. Parsons died in 1941 and is interred at Federal Street Cemetery in Greenfield, Massachusetts.view less
Books by Herbert C. Parsons
A Puritan Outpost: A History of the Town and People of Northfield, Massachusetts