University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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To Junius Parker of New York and Nortk Carolina tke Editors offer tkis volume as a reminder of years spent at tke University and as a token of esteem and respect for a strong and loyal son of Alma Mater

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Junius Parker f ' ' HE YACKETY YACK for 1913 is fortunate in associating with itself the M m name of a loyal son of the University, who represents with honor to her and to the State her best traditions in a distant and exacting field — Mr. Junius Parker, of New ork, N. Y., general counsel of the American Tobacco Company. Junius Parker comes by inheritance to the legal profession. His father, CapL Edward S. Parker, is a prominent lawyer of Graham, who has filled the office of Solicitor of the old Fifth District, and has served in the State Senate. Junius Parker was born September 24, 1867, at Smithfield, but he entered the University in 1 885 from Graham. As an undergraduate student, he remained only two years. He returned, however, to study law under Dr. Manning, and was admitted to the Bar in 1889. Mr. Parker practiced his profession for about five years at Durham. Those years were most important in his future life, since they brought him into contact with Mr. James B. Duke, the head of the American Tobacco Company, and Mr. W. W. Fuller, who as general counsel of the Company so ably conducted its legal affairs. Yet not for several years was he to become connected with that Company. In 1 894, he removed to Knoxville, Tenn., where in a short time he built up a large and remunerative practice. He married, in 1 899, Miss Mary W. Locke, of Knoxville; and the same year he removed to New York as assistant general counsel of the American Tobacco Company. Two years ago, when the United States Supreme Court rendered its decree in the famous case of the American Tobacco Company — a case which Mr. Parker argued before that Court with Messrs. John G. Johnson and DeLancey Nicoll — the Company was dissolved in conformity with the decree, and Mr. Parker became general counsel of the American Tobacco Company as reorganized. During his residence in New York, Mr. Parker has maintained a warm and loyal interest in the affairs of his native State and of his Alma Mater. He is a member of the New York Southern Society, of the North Carolina Society (of which he was president in 1909), of the University of North Carolina Alumni Association in New York, and of the New York Alumni Chapter of the Southern Kappa Alpha. In spite of the conspicuous ability which Mr. Parker has demonstrated in the position he occupies, his friends may naturally feel a sense of disappointment that his devotion to the affairs of a single great corporation has prevented his taking the position