Mary Parsons (golfer)
Mary Parsons may refer to: * Mary Bliss Parsons (1628–1712), American woman accused of witchcraft * Mary Almera Parsons (1850–1944), American physician * Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1859–1947), author of a guide to California wildflowers * Mary Rosse, in full Mary Parsons, Countess of Rosse (1813–1885), British Irish amateur astronomer, architect, furniture designer, and photographer * Mary Bridget Parsons Lady Mary Bridget Parsons (27 October 1907 – 26 January 1972) was an English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Biography Lady Mary Bridget Parsons was born on 27 October 1907, the daughter of William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse and F ...

Mary Bliss Parsons
Mary Bliss Parsons (1628–1712) was an American woman who was accused of witchcraft, but was exonerated, in 17th-century Massachusetts. Background Parsons was born to Thomas and Margaret (Hulins) Bliss in Gloucestershire, England in 1628. Her family later immigrated to Hartford, Connecticut, where she married Joseph Parsons on November 2, 1646. The couple later moved to Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1655, Joseph Parsons purchased a land tract from the local Native Americans in what would become Northampton. Parsons frequently negotiated for land from the Nonotuck, Agawam, and other Indigenous peoples of the region under circumstances that have come under scrutiny as an instrumental part of the colonization of the area and partial displacement of Native people by Puritan settlers. The Parsonses became financially successful members of the Northampton community, owning property in Springfield, Hadley, Massachusetts and Boston as well as in Northampton. The Feud In the ...
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Mary Almera Parsons
Mary Almera Parsons (May 2, 1850 – January 12, 1944) was an American physician and activist who successfully petitioned for the Medical Society of the District of Columbia to grant medical licenses to women. Biography In 1870, Parsons entered medical school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In June 1874, she graduated from Howard University and applied for her license to practice medicine, along with fellow graduate Mary Spackman, but both were denised licenses due to their gender. With Isabel Haslup Lamb, Parsons founded Women's Medical Society of the District of Columbia. Flodoardo Howard, the president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, was pressured in to forming a committee to discuss the issue of granting women medical licenses. Samuel Claggett Busey was invited to be in the committee but declined, as he knew the majority of the members were opposed to women practicing medicine. Busey would go on to become the president of the Medical Societ ...
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Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1859 - Dec. 22, 1947) was the author of an early comprehensive guide to California wildflowers. Biography Mary Elizabeth Parsons was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1859. She studied art in San Francisco in the 1890s, where Alice Brown Chittenden was her sketching partner. In the 1890s, Parsons hiked around California with the botanical artist Margaret Warriner Buck, with a view to publishing a book about California flora. The result was the very successful ''The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits'' (1897), written by Parsons with over 100 illustrations engraved from Buck's pen-and-ink drawings. It went through many printings and several editions and was still being reprinted into the 1950s. Parsons intended her book to complement Mrs. William Starr Dana's very successful ''How to Know the Wild Flowers'' (1893) by emphasizing plants that were unknown in the eastern United States where Mrs. Dana lived. With Mrs. Dana's permission, ...
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Mary Rosse
Mary Parsons, Countess of Rosse (; 14 April 1813 – 1885), was an Anglo-Irish amateur astronomer, architect, furniture designer, and pioneering photographer. Often known simply as Mary Rosse, she was one of the early practitioners of making photographs from waxed-paper negatives. Early life Mary Field was born on 14 April 1813, at Heaton Hall, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire, the daughter of John Wilmer Field, a wealthy estate owner. She had a sister, Delia, and they were educated at home by Susan Lawson, a governess who encouraged the young Mary's creativity and broad interests, including astronomy. The sister were joint heirs to their father's fortune. Through her family she met the future 3rd Earl of Rosse, then Lord Oxmantown (1800–1867), an Anglo-Irish astronomer and naturalist, and they were married on 14 April 1836. In February 1841, Lord Oxmantown succeeded his father in the family peerage to become The 3rd Earl of Rosse. They had married on 14 April 1836, her 23rd bi ...
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