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Charles Henry Parkhurst

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When the municipal grand jury asked him for hard evidence, Parkhurst personally hired a private detective and, with his friend John Erving, went to the streets in disguise to collect proof of the corruption. From the pulpit on March 13, 1892, he preached a sermon backed with documentation and
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in 1891, and he challenged the methods of the city police department. He inaugurated a campaign against the political and social corruption of Tammany Hall. The hall had begun innocuously as just a social club, but had drifted into politics and
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As a Massachusetts farm boy Dr. Parkhurst 'heard of New York with awe and trembling,' as he himself said. When he was called to the pastorate of a church here he must have hesitated as did the prophet Jonah when summoned to go and preach against
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and surrounding boroughs. Grand jury investigations were ineffective, despite the appeals of social reformers. Few in Parkhurst's congregation recognized that Tammany Hall, the police, and organized crime were interconnected.
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On February 14, 1892, he challenged Tammany Hall from the pulpit. Pointing to the hall's political influence and their connection with the police, he noted that men fed upon the city while pretending to protect it saying,
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to investigate conditions, and to the election of a reform mayor in 1894. Although Tammany Hall did publicly clean house, it remained influential on both the political front and in organized crime until the 1950s.
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in 1866. He became principal of the high school in Amherst in 1867. He married Ellen Bodman on November 23, 1870, she being one of his former students. Parkhurst studied
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Reformer, 91, a Somnambulist, Plunges From Porch Roof of New Jersey Home. Famed as Crusader In 1894 He Overthrew the Tammany Machine and Drove Croker to Europe.
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While we fight iniquity, they shield and patronize it; while we try to convert criminals, they manufacture them ...
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His first wife, Ellen Bodman, died on May 28, 1921. He married Eleanor Marx on April 18, 1927, in
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1894 to 1895, a major New York State Senate probe into police corruption
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Interested in municipal affairs, Parkhurst was elected president of the
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minister. He was pastor of a congregational church at
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Charles Parkhurst (disambiguation)

Framingham, Massachusetts
Ventnor City, New Jersey
Social reformer
Framingham, Massachusetts
Tammany Hall
Framingham, Massachusetts
Amherst College
theology
Halle
Williston Seminary
Easthampton, Massachusetts
Leipzig
Presbyterian
Lenox, Massachusetts
Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City
New York
Society for the Prevention of Crime
graft
Manhattan
affidavits
Lexow Committee
Los Angeles
sleepwalking
Ventnor City, New Jersey
Lexow Committee


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