By Matt Lattanzi Albert Parlin was born on September 16, 1848 in Everett, Massachusetts to Ezra Parlin and Nancy Pickering-Parlin. His father, Ezra, was a native of Weld, Maine who met Nancy while he was teaching. Unfortunately, tragedy struck in the young life of Albert, losing both his parents at a very young age – his mother passed in 1853 at the age of 26 and his father passed in 1858 at the age of 37, both succumbing to “consumption” (tuberculosis). At the age of nine, young Albert had become an orphan, raised by his grandmother, Sarah Howe Edmester Pickering, in the Pickering House where he was born.