Parton, James

E., 1822-1891. A popular littérateur of English birth who came to America when very young and for the latter part of his life resided in New bury port. The permanent value of his writing is not great, with the po ible exception of his Life of Voltaire. His other works include, Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General Butler in New Orleans; Famous Americans of Recent Times; Smoking and Drinking; Captains of Industry; Triumphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of America and Europe; The People’s Book of Biography; Caricature and Other Comic Art; Topics of the Times (1871). See New England Magazine, January, 1893. Cr. Har. Hou.