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Samuel Hale Parker (1781–1864) was a publisher and bookseller in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He published musical scores as well as novels, sermons, and other titles. He operated the Boston Circulating Library, and was among the founders of the Handel and Haydn Society.〔H. Earle Johnson. Musical Interludes in Boston 1795-1830. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.〕 == Biography == Samuel H. Parker was born in 1781 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire to Matthew Stanley Gibson Parker and Ann Rust.〔Ezra Scollay Stearns. Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire. The Lewis publishing company, 1908.〕 His son James Cutler Dunn Parker (1828-1916) was a teacher and superintendent of examinations at the New England Conservatory of Music.〔William Richard Cutter; William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts: Volume II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), 737.〕 Parker worked as a bookbinder in Boston, 1802-1811. In 1811 Parker bought the Boston Book Store from William Blagrove.〔William Arms Fisher. Notes on music in old Boston. Oliver Ditson company, 1918.〕 The store sold books, as one might expect, including "several hundred books of vocal and instrumental music, and some sheet music for the piano, ... pianos and other musical wares, mending glues, concert and theater tickets, new sheet music, and works of fiction."〔Russell Sanjek. American popular music and its business: the first four hundred years. Oxford University Press US, 1988; p.100.〕 Around 1809-1816 he and booksellers Edmund Munroe and David Francis ran a joint publishing firm: Munroe, Francis and Parker. Parker also published titles under his own imprint, utilizing Munroe & Francis as printers. In 1815 Parker and others founded Boston's Handel and Haydn Society.〔〔Howard E. Smither. A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. UNC Press, 2000; v.4, p.393.〕 In addition to publishing, he ran a library with both circulating and non-circulating collections.〔For context, see: List of libraries in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts〕 As of 1815, "Parker's reading-room is opened from 9 in the morning till 9 at night, and contains all the Boston papers, some of the principal Southern papers and magazines, English reviews, &c. A large collection of music, and some beautiful drawings, are kept for loan: to be increased every opportunity."〔Catalogue of the Boston Union Circulating Library, and Reading Room. Boston: Printed by Munroe, Francis & Parker for Samuel H. Parker, 1815.〕 By 1818 Parker's circulating collection, known as the Boston Union Circulating Library or the Boston Circulating Library held some 7,000 volumes, the largest of its kind in town.〔 As proprietor of the bookshop and library, Parker benefitted from the efforts of his forebears who had built the enterprise over decades—William Martin, Benjamin Guild, William P. Blake, William Pelham, William Blagrove.〔Jesse Hauk Shera. Foundations of the public library; the origins of the public library movement in New England, 1629-1855. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1949; p.133+〕 Through the years Parker conducted his business activities from several successive addresses in Boston: 3 School Street (1811); 4 Cornhill (1815); 1 Water Street (ca.1817); 12 Cornhill (1818); 164 Washington Street (1825–1832); 10 School Street, 141 Washington Street, then 107 Washington Street (all in 1834); 135 Washington Street (1838). A fire in 1833 caused his move to new premises on School Street.〔〔 Oliver Ditson and Parker established the publishing firm of Parker and Ditson in 1836. The partnership ended in 1842, when Ditson bought Parker's interest in the firm.〔〔David Horn. Oliver Ditson and Company. In: Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media, Industry and Society. London: Continuum, 2003.〕〔Obituary: Oliver Ditson. New York Times, Dec 22, 1888. p.2.〕 He belonged to the Trinity Church congregation, where his relative Samuel Parker ministered. He also sang in the Trinity Church choir.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Hale Parker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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