Charles Henry Parrish (April 18, 1859 – May 8, 1931) was a minister and educator in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky.

His parents, Hiram and Harriet Parrish, belonged to Jeff Barr and Beverly Hicks.

Hiram was a teamster and a deacon at Lexington's First Baptist Church led by London Ferrill, and Harriet was a seamstress.

He was then appointed secretary and treasurer of the State University, later known as Simmons College of Kentucky, as well as professor of Greek.

He was briefly a replacement pastor at Zion Baptist Church in Louisville, and January 2, 1886, was ordained.

In 1918, the Eckstein Institute fully dissolved and Parrish returned to Simmons College of Kentucky to become president,[4] serving from 1918 to 1931.

[3] After Parrish's death, Simmons College of Kentucky was faced with financial trouble and sold to the University of Louisville.

[5] They were involved in the lives of many notable Kentuckians, for instance introducing noted businesswoman Madam C. J. Walker to Booker T.

[2] On January 26, 1898, Parrish married Mary Virginia Cook, a noted educator, of Bowling Green, Kentucky.