ECA Record Control Number: 13455

Record Level: Listing

Record Type: Collector

Name: James Parmelee

Dates:
Birth: 1855
Death: 1931

City: Cleveland
State: OH
Other cities:

Gender: Male

Historical notes:

James Parmelee (1855-1931) was a Cleveland financier who, in 1886, along with the son of U.S. President and Ohio native, Rutherford B. Hayes, helped start the National Carbon Company, which figured prominently in the history of the battery.[1] Parmelee was also the fourth president of the Cleveland General Electric Company.

He and his wife Alice Maury Parmelee were benefactors of the Washington National Cathedral,[2] and Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., as well as Ohio charities. He was one of the founders of a predecessor institution of Case Western Reserve University. Their Cleveland house, on what was then called Millionaires Row (Euclid Avenue), no longer exists. Their Washington D.C. home, which they called “the Causeway”, was renamed “Tregaron” by a successor owner, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and after some controversy remains fairly intact.[3]

Citation: “James Parmelee.”  Wikipedia.  Updated May 4, 2016.  Accessed November 15, 2016.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parmelee

Decades of activity:
1920s-1930s

See also:
Alice Maury Parmelee [1855-1931]

WORKS OWNED BY EMIL CARLSEN:

Emil Carlsen : The picture from Thibet [sic], ca.1920.

Document Information

Digital-born Document Number:
ECA.2016.13455

Digital Document Provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.

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Record Birth Date:
August 20, 2016

Last Update:
November 15, 2016