EDWIN PARKER HAYDEN, JR., died April 12, 1992, at Princeton, New Jersey. He was born the son of Edwin Parker and Ruth (Chivvis) Hayden on January 7, 1929, in Boston, Massachusetts. He prepared at St. Mark’s School, Southborough, Massachusetts, before coming to Harvard from which he received an A.B. in 1950 and an LL.B. in 1953. Upon graduation, he embarked on a career in law and was associated with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York. From 1957 to 1958 he served as public relations representative with the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia, doing legislative work, writing, editing and photography. He returned to the practice of law in 1958 with the firm of Kelley, Drye, Newhall & Maginnes in New York; in 1963 he became a partner of the firm. At the time of our Twentieth Anniversary, he was a partner in two law firms, Kelley, Drye, Warren, Clark, Carr & Ellis and Roberts & Hayden, practicing in the field of trusts, estates, and estate planning. He subsequently opened a firm in his hometown of Princeton. Hayden also coauthored three books, Here Lies America (1978), which he described as “an irreverent collection of minibiographies of off-beat people with pictures of their  gravestones,” and Chapin School (1981), a history of a Princeton school on whose board Hayden had served for many years, and Beauport Chronicle (1991).

He married Mary F. Chapman on July 18, 1953; their marriage ended in divorce in 1978. He was survived by his children, Stephen Parker, Peter Chapman, Philip Aldrich, and David Moseley, two grandchildren, and his longtime companion, Marianne M. Vaughan.

-From Harvard Class of 1950 – 45th Anniversary Report

Parker Hayden was a tall, cool customer who loved singing and was a joy   to sing with.

-From Frank Cabot at the 60th Anniversary Memorial Service