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May Clement Parker

American, 1881 - 1961

BiographyMay Clement (Parker) Read (20 Aug. 1881 - 9 Feb. 1961) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of John Dwight Parker (1850-1919) and Caroline Anna Goodwin (1859-1937). She had three siblings: Helen Parker Wayne (1883-1980), Katharine Goodwin Parker Cheney (1890-1973), and Caroline Parker Smith Chubb (1897-1938).

She married Harold Wilson Read (1881-1949). They had five children: Robert Parker Read (1907-1951), May Welch Read Batchelder (1909-1991), Caroline Goodwin Read Harding (1910-2005), Jean Read Stoddard (1913-1988), and Harold W. Read Jr. (1916-1996).

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