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- New England Historical and Genealogy Register
He prepared for college at Moses Brown school in Providence, Rhode Island, and studied in Colorado College and the University of California. He worked as auditor of the Colorado Springs Co., 1896-1898; with the brokerage firm of W.P. Bonbright Co., 1898-1900; Manage of the Bemis Brothers Bag Co., Seattle Wa., 1904-1909, and was active in the management of many other business corporations in Seattle, as well as in many civic and cultural activities in the city.
He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, his college fraternity, and of the Sons of the Revolution. He was a member of the Seattle Golf Club, the Seattle Yacht Club, and the University Club of San Francisco. He was an Episcopalian.
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The Seattle Times
June 10, 1955
Boy Scouts will act as pallbearers at funeral services for Reginald Hascall Parsons, Seattle capitalist and philanthropist who died yesterday. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow in St. Mark's Cathedral. Cremation will follow.
Boy scouts were chosen as pallbearers because of Mr. Parsons' acive interest in scouting. He served as president of the Seattle Council of Boy Scouts and was a member of the executive board of the national organization. The Scouts will be selected from the ranks of the Order of the Arrow, Scouting camping honor society.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Obituary
10 June 1955
R. H. Parsons, Business, Civic Leader, Dies
Reginald Hascall Parsons, 81, prominent Seattle financier and philanthropist, died Thursday morning at Swedish Hospital following an extended illness.
Mr. Parsons was president of the Parsons Investment Co. and the firm of Parsons, Hart and Co. In addition, he was head of the Pinnacle Packing Co., Medford, Ore., and owner of Hillcrest Orchard
in that city. He was an active board member of the Seattle Trust and Savings Bank and the Northern Life Insurance Co.
New York Native
Born at Flushing, N.Y., on October 3, 1873, Mr. Parsons was a lineal descendent of John Bradford, the first governor of Massachusetts, and of Governor Winthrop of Connecticut. He was educated in Rhode Island public school, Colorado College and the University of California, and held an honorary degree from Whitman College. His first position was with the survery party which made the reconnaisance for the Rio Grande Western Railway across Utah in 1891 and 1892. Later he became active as a real estate man and mining broker in Colorado Springs
Civic Leader
He came to Seattle in 1904 as Seattle manager of the Bemis Bros. Bag Co., and since that time has resided at 618 W. Highland Dr. His many activities included fruit and stock raising, and in 1910 he helped organize the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, which he headed. During his lifetime, he has served as the head of numerous civic groups, including presidency in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Family Society of Seattle, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Seattle Community Fund, which he helped found. He was a leader in youth work, helping to found the Lakeside School for Boys and holding national office in the Boy Scouts of America. The Boy Scout recreational area, Camp Parsons, was named for him.
Club Member
Mr. Parsons was instrumental in the formation of the Pinel Foundation Hospital, which has received nationwide recognition for its psychiatric work. His lingering illness forced Mr. Parsons to drop many of his club and business activities, but at the time of his death he was a member of the University Club, the Seattle Tennis Club, the Rainier Club and the Washington Athletic Club, of which he was one of the first members.
Mr. Parsons is survived by his wife, Maude B. Parsons; two sons, George II Parsons of Seattle, and Reginald B. Parsons of Los Angeles; two daughters, Mrs. Howard A. Frame of Palo Alto, Calif. and Mrs. John S. Day, of Medord, Ore.; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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