Willard Parker Jr.

Willard Parker was for thirty-one years a Centurion in the full meaning of the term. His leisure was spent here, his friendships were largely made and cultivated here, and his acquaintance with the men of his native city was conterminous with most of what is eminent here. He bore a brilliant name with modesty, rejoiced in the usefulness of an important practice as a physician among those who had been patients of his famous father or their children, and found keen enjoyment in the by-paths of literature, science, and art. He was a graduate from two schools of Columbia, knew and loved the ancient institutions of the city, treasured their traditions, and perpetuated as far as in him lay what was best and most beautiful in the formative influences which they exert. His nature was cordial, and those of his own and other callings to whom his intimacy was given remember his presence with great contentment.

William Milligan Sloane
1908 Century Association Yearbook