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...definitive history Three Centuries of Harvard, Samuel Eliot Morrison wrote that "the poorest people knew that they could call on Parkman in the middle of the night for some medical emergency and not fear of being rebuked...
...Parkman had been missing since the week before Webster's arrest. He was last seen entering the Medical College at 1 p.m., reportedly for a meeting with Webster...
...following Monday, Robert Gould Shaw, Parkman's brother-in-law and grandfather of the famous Civil War general, distributed 28,000 handbills telling of the professor's disappearance...
...bills offered $3,000 to anyone who had information which would help Shaw find Parkman alive...
Three thousand dollars was an incredible sum for those days, and it attested to the importance the community attached to Parkman...