Parkman (Francis) is born on Beacon Hill.

The son of Rev. Francis Parkman, Francis Parkman is born at 8 Walnut Street, takes an early interest in the writings of James Fenimore Cooper, and graduates from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Hoping to improve his health, he travels extensively throughout the western U.S. in 1848, returns to Boston, and despite continued poor health and eyesight, begins to write and publish a series of historical studies and becomes one of the country’s most noted historians. Parkman dies at his summer home on Jamaica Pond on November 8, 1893, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.