| Ephraim Littlefield |
medical school porter responsible for dismemberment of dissected corpses |
| Dr. George F. Parkman |
wed to Eliza, this New England patrician went missing in November of 1849 |
| Dr. John White Webster |
physician and Harvard Medical College chemistry professor, married to Harriet |
| Gustavus Andrews |
keeper of the Leverett Street Jail |
| George Bemis, Esq. |
Boston’s preeminent criminal lawyer hired by the Parkman family to try Webster |
| Jacob Bigelow |
old friend of George Parkman and father to Dr. Henry Bigelow, an eminent Harvard surgeon |
| Edward Blake |
husband of Geo. Parkman’s half-sister Sarah |
| S. Parkman Blake |
son of Edward and Sarah and business assistant to his uncle George Parkman |
| Gov. George Briggs |
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1850 |
| Derastus Clapp |
Boston’s first police detective |
| John H. Clifford, Esq. |
Massachusetts’ Attorney-General and the prosecutor of all capital murder cases |
| Charles Cunningham |
this rich Webster cousin was a foreign-merchant in the Azores and Europe and a ship owner |
| Charles Dabney |
Boston Athenaeum benefactor and Consul to the Azores, father-in-law to two Webster daughters |
| Joseph Eveleth |
Suffolk County Sheriff and hangman |
| Anne Finnegan |
the Webster family maid, just arrived from Ireland |
| Samuel B. Fuller |
Cambridge Bridge toll keeper |
| Paul Holland |
owner of Holland’s Grocery on the corner of Vine and Blossom streets, patronized by George Parkman |
| Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Parkman Professor of Anatomy & Physiology, poet, and Harvard’s medical school dean |
| Dr. Charles T. Jackson |
Harvard-trained doctor and dentist who falsely claimed to invent ether and the telegraph; his sister Ledian wed Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| Dr. Nathan C. Keep |
the Harvard-connected dentist who made George Parkman’s false teeth |
| Charles M. Kingsley |
Parkman’s longtime business agent |
| Caroline N. Littlefield |
she and her janitor-husband Ephraim lived with their children in the medical school basement |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
he and wife Fanny were intimate friends with John and Harriet Webster |
| Samuel Longfellow |
Henry’s younger artist-brother who tutored the Webster grandchildren in the Azores |
| Patrick McGowan |
manservant in the Geo. Parkman household |
| Pliny Merrick, Esq. |
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and sometime trial lawyer |
| Dr. William T.G. Morton |
dentist who took the opposite position from Drs. Keep and Jackson on Geo. Parkman’s dentures |
| Samuel D. Parker, Esq. |
Boston’s district attorney |
| Eliza Parkman |
George’s wife and mother to George, Jr. and Harriette; daughter of British Counsel to Boston |
| Revd. Francis Parkman |
brother to George; Unitarian minister who baptized the Webster grandson |
| Francis Parkman |
son of the minister, this historian-author of The Oregon Trail was George Parkman’s nephew |
| Samuel Parkman |
father to George, the late Samuel was a wealthy Boston merchant and family patriarch |
| Samuel Parkman, Jr. |
ex-Harvard Demonstrator of Anatomy, George’s divorced brother, a past lecturer at Castleton Medical College, had been banished to Italy |
| Seth Pettee |
collector of lecture ticket fees for Professor Webster and others at the Medical College |
| Jabez Pratt |
Suffolk County Deputy-Sheriff and Coroner |
| Catherine Hickling Prescott |
Harriet Webster’s half-sister and grandmother to historian William Prescott |
| William Hickling Prescott |
nearly blind historian-writer, grandnephew of Harriet and John Webster and family head |
| Revd. Dr. George Putnam |
this member of the Harvard Corporation claimed to befriend Webster in his time of need |
| Judge Lemuel Shaw |
Chief Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court whose charge to the jury would be criticized |
| Robert Gould Shaw |
business associate of Geo. Parkman and brother-in-law, wed to his older sister |
| Edward D. Sohier |
John Webster chose his civil attorney to be his counsel from a list of possible court-appointed lawyers |
| Jared Sparks |
this friend of Webster’s was Harvard’s president and its first Professor of American History |
| Francis Tukey |
Boston’s flamboyant and shady first police marshal |
| Harriet Hickling Webster |
daughter to United States Consul to the Azores, Harriet and John Webster had four girls |
