sentences:  Haley persuaded them to sell their stock, resulting in Parsons leaving the company with $11,000.With this money he bought the lease to 1003, which had come to be known as "the Parsonage" after him.Now disassociated from JPL and Aerojet, Parsons and Forman founded the Ad Astra Engineering Company, under which Parsons founded the chemical manufacturing Vulcan Powder Company.