Parkhurst
CHARLES HENRY, an American clergyman and reformer; born in Framingham, Mass., April 17, 1842. He was graduated at Amherst PARLIAMENT College in 1866; studied theology in Germany. After 1880 he was pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, retiring in 1917. In 1891, as president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, he began his attack on the police department of New York City, and was prominent in the Lexow investigation which followed. His writings include: "The Blind Man's Creed" (1883): "Three Gates on a Side" (1887); "Our Fight with Tammany" (1895); "The Sunny Side of Christianity" (1901); "A Little Lower Than the Angels" (1909).