sentences:  He was born in "Rose Cottage" on June 10, 1858, at what was later the site of the city's Methodist Episcopal church.The old family home was at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, but Parrish' parents removed to Kewanee from Boston, where Rufus Parker Parrish had been engaged in business and was prominently associated with William Lloyd Garrison and others in the anti-slavery cause.Both parents had a wide acquaintance with the famous Boston citizens of that era, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips and Ralph Waldo Emerson.