Roger Parish

Photograph of Roger Havens Parish reading in bed, possibly at Phoenix Cottage. Mid-1930s. [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2022.30.1.298. Gift in Memory of Roger Havens Parish.]

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Married: Mildred Robbins Parish, Jane Burnham Mather

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Roger Havens Parish, as a young man, was a patient at Trudeau Sanatorium, staying in Phoenix Cottage. A photo album he kept while there is in the archives at Historic Saranac Lake. He married a fellow patient, Mildred Robbins. Mildred died in 1951 and he remarried in 1953.

JANE MATHER BETROTHED; Will Be Bride of Roger H. Parish on Aug. 22 in Westminster, Md.

The New York Times, May 26, 1953

WESTMINSTER, Md., May 28– The engagement of Miss Jane Burnham Mather to Roger Havens Parish of Bronxville, N. Y., son of Mrs. Harold F. Parish of New York and the late Mr. Parish, has been announced by her mother, Mrs. Frank W. Mather. The wedding will take place on Aug. 22 in the Westminster Methodist Church. Miss Mather, daughter also of the late Mr. Mather, attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., and was graduated from the Maryland Institute in Baltimore. She is secretary to the Board of Education, Carroll County, and to Samuel M. Jenness, county superintendent of schools. Mr. Parish attended New York University.