David Parish

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Portrait and signature of David Parish. Portrait is from an engraved miniature painted on ivory in 1810.
Portrait and signature of David Parish. Portrait is from an engraved miniature painted on ivory in 1810.[1]

David Parish (born 1778) was a German-born land speculator and financier who played a major role in financing the United States military effort in the War of 1812 and in chartering the Second Bank of the United States. [2]

Parish was born in 1778 in Hamburg, Germany, the grandson of an English merchant who had transferred his business to Hamburg from Scotland. [3]

He played a major role in the development of St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties in northern New York state, where he made his home in Ogdensburg and built a blast furnace at Rossie. [1] The town of Parishville is named for him.[4]

He died of drowning in the Danube River. [2]

Parish was the basis for a character in the novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen. [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Franklin Benjamin Hough. Albany: Little and Co. 1853.
  2. ^ a b c "The American Career of David Parish," by Philip G. Walters, Raymond Walters, Jr. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Nov., 1944), pp. 149-166
  3. ^ "David Parish and the War of 1812," by J. Mackay Hitsman, Military Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 1962-1963), pp. 171-177. doi:10.2307/1985612
  4. ^ History of Parishville, NY
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