EDWARD EVERETT PARAMORE, Ph.B.

 1882

Born August 31, 1860, in Washington, Mo.

Died May 25, 1928, in Santa Paula, Calif.

    Father, James Wallace Paramore [LL.B. Albany Law School 1854], a lawyer; president and builder of St. Louis & Southwestern Railroad and of St. Louis Cotton Compress Company; Colenel of 3rd Ohio Cavalry during Civil War; son of J. W. Paramore. Mother, Nancy Helen [Kloch] Paramore; daughter of  Samuel and Helen [Van Vechten] Kloch. Yale relatives include two brothers, Frederick W. Paramore, '79 S., and James A. Paramore, ex-'91 S. Preparation for Yale received at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Select course; a Class historian; member Triennial Committee and Book and Snake. 

    In the employ of St. Louis & Southwestern Railroad Company 1882-88, as general agent in the freight department at Pine Bluff, Camden, and Texarkana, Ark., and in Texas and later as eastern agent at St. Louis; in 1888 formed, with his brother, Frederick W. Paramore, the firm of Paramore Brothers & Company, dealers in investment securities, in St. Louis and served as secretary and treasurer of the company until 1896 and then of its successor, the Paramore Investment Company, until 1904; during 1900-01 built the plant of St. Louis Portland Cememt Company [now Missouri Portland Cement Company] and was its president until 1905, when he resigned to complete the construction of the irrigation system of the Houston River Canal Company in Louisiana; was engaged in this work and also in the irrigation and milling of rice in Louisiana until 1911; retired from active business in 1914 and spent much of his time in Montecito, Calif., until 1920; had since been engaged in developing a fruit ranch in the Antelope Valley, ninety miles from Santa Barbara where he made his home.

    Married June 5, 1888, in Monroeville, Ohio, Mary Tuttle, daughter of George Wilcox and Sarah [Patterson] Clary. Two sons:James Wallace [Ph.B. 1911; LL.B. Harvard 1914] and Edward Everett, Jr. [Ph.B. 1917]. 

     Death due to angina pectoris.  Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis.   Survived by wife and two sons.

[note: bio written on the inside cover of "The Ballad of Yukon Jake" published in New York by Coward-McCann, Inc. in the year 1928] 

     Edward E. Paramore was the author of "The Ballard of Yukon Jake" quote 'The funniest and most famous of modern parodies-a little masterpiece'

     'This famous parody, when it first appeared in Vanity Fair, was probably more talked of and reprinted throughout the country than any other single poem of the decade. It was used as the basis for a moving picture, a Federal Court estimated its public at three and a half millions, it was set to music, recited over the radio and was twice reprinted in Vanity Fair at the request of thousands of readers.  Parodies are not rare, but good parodies are as rare as the roc's eggs.

     That Yukon Jake is a masterpiece of its sort, few will deny. We believe it deserves a permanent place between the covers of a book. Mr. Paramore, a Yale graduate, has written many critical and humorous articles for various magazines. He is the author of two plays which have been produced on Broadway.' [Coward-McCann, Inc.]

Submitted by:  Nancy Paramore