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'''David Parish''' (December 4, 1778{{spaced
==Early life==
Parish was born on December 4, 1778, in [[Hamburg]], then known as the Free Imperial City of Hamburg and a state of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. He is the grandson of [[Scottish people|Scottish]] merchant John Parish, who had transferred his business to Hamburg from [[Leith]], [[Scotland]], in the 1750s.<ref name=MilitaryHistory>"[https://www.jstor.org/pss/1985612 David Parish and the War of 1812]," by J. Mackay Hitsman, ''Military Affairs'', Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 1962-1963), pp. 171-177. {{doi|10.2307/1985612}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Life in America ==
Parish emigrated to the United States in 1806, settling first in [[Philadelphia]], then two years later acquired 200,000 acres of land in the St. Lawrence River Valley to sell as farmland to settlers. Further adding to his holdings he profited greatly from arranging a large shipment of gold and silver bullion from Mexico to Napoleon’s France.<ref name="macleans">[http://
He and his family played a major role in the development of [[St. Lawrence County, New York|St. Lawrence]] and [[Jefferson County, New York|Jefferson]] counties in northern [[New York (state)|New York]] state, where he made his home in [[Ogdensburg, New York|Ogdensburg]] and built a [[blast furnace]] at [[Rossie, New York|Rossie]].<ref name=Hough>''A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'' by Franklin Benjamin Hough. Albany: Little and Co. 1853.</ref> His 1810 built mansion is now home to the [[Frederic Remington Art Museum]], and was occupied by members of the Parish family until the 1860s. The town of [[Parishville, New York|Parishville]] is named for him, where his family owned a sheep farm and grew [[hops]].<ref>[http://history.rays-place.com/ny/parishville-ny.htm History of Parishville, NY]{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ingram|first=Merritt|date=April 1960|editor-last=Manley|editor-first=Atwood|title=The Ripley Papers and Matildaville|url=http://slcha.org/quarterly/issues/v005no2.pdf|journal=The Quarterly|location=Canton, NY|publisher=St. Lawrence County Historical Association|volume=
Sympathetic to the anti-war [[Federalist Party]], he nevertheless brokered a $7.5 million loan to the cash-strapped Republican administration of [[James Madison]] in 1813 to continue prosecuting the war.<ref>Alan Taylor, ''The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels & Indian Allies'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010, {{ISBN|1400042658}}, {{ISBN|978-1-4000-4265-4}}. pp 275-76.</ref> Historian Alan Taylor asserts that for that support, indispensable with Congress unwilling to raise taxes to fund the conflict, Parish gained the political leverage to insist on neutrality for the St. Lawrence Valley and peace negotiations with the British.<ref>Taylor (2010), p. 275</ref> Despite the strategic military importance of the St. Lawrence Valley, the US made only one half-hearted and disastrous attempt, in November 1813, to use it as an invasion corridor to attack [[Montreal]] and cut off the supply route from [[Lower Canada|Lower]] to [[Upper Canada]]. The rest of the time, American and British interests continued their thriving transborder trade and generally peaceful relations as if there were no war between their countries, a fact Taylor attributes to Parish and his supporters and agents in the valley.<ref>Taylor (2010), pp. 275-77</ref> Throughout the war, the focus of US military operations on land continued to be western Lake Ontario and the strategically marginal [[Niagara peninsula|Niagara Peninsula]].
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== Later years and Death ==
Because of an Austrian bank fraud he lost his fortune and, in 1826, drowned himself in the [[Danube River]].
==In popular culture==
Parish was the basis for a character in the novel ''[[Anthony Adverse]]'' by [[Hervey Allen]].<ref name=
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