Spouse(s) Hessie Daisy Maxwell Name David Parry | Role Industrialist Books The Scarlet Empire | |
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Children Lydia Maxwell Parry, Cora Parry Oakes, Lydia Maxwell Parry Teasdale, Maxwell Oswald Parry Died May 12, 1915, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | ||
David MacLean Parry (26 March 1852—12 May 1915) was an American industrialist and writer.
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David MacLean Parry was born on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked briefly as a clerk, a traveling salesman, a reporter on The New York Herald and later became a successful businessman. He was president of Parry Manufacturing Co., and Parry Oil and Pipe Line Co., the Parry Auto Co., and served for a time as president of the American Educational Society, the Citizens' Industrial Association of America and the National Association of Manufacturers. Parry was well known for being extremely hostile to labor unions and workers' rights. He authored the anti-socialistic dystopian novel The Scarlet Empire. The book was written as a satirical counterblast to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, and an Odd Fellow.