bullet Dr. Theophilus PARVIN IV, M.D., L.L.D. was born on 19 Jan 1829 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 29 Jan 1898 in Philadelphia, PA. Theophilus Parvin, physician, was one of the most prominent Parvins in American history.

As a boy he was sent to Philadelphia for education at an early age and when eleven, entered the preparatory department of Lafayette College. In 1847 he graduated from Indiana University (at the age of 18). During the next three years he taught in the high school of Lawrenceville, NJ, and also studied Hebrew in the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1852 he finished two years's medical course at the University of Pennsylvania and received his doctorate in medicine.

For a time he was the resident physician at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He then moved to Indianapolis, where he began private practice. In 1861 he was elected president of the Indiana Medical Society. Three years later he accepted the professorship in materia medica at the Medical College of Ohio, where he taught for five years. In 1869 he became professor of obstetrics at Louisville University but, in 1872, transferred to a similar chair in the Indiana Medical College.

Dr. Parvin was elected president of the American Medical Association in 1879 and delivered the presidential address in Atlanta, Georgia. He returned to Philadelphia in 1883 as profes- sor of obstetrics and gynecology at Jefferson Medical College and was with that institution until his death on January 29, 1898.

Parvin gained an international reputation as an authority on obstetrics. His knowledge of the science and literature of the subject was prodigious. As a practicing obstetrician, however, he was without manual dexterity and had less experience as an operator than many of his contemporaries. His "Science and the Art of Obstetrics" appeared in 1886, and the following year he edited a "Handbook of Diseases of Women", translated under his supervision from the original work of von Winkel. He was co- editor of the Cincinnati Journal of Medicine (1866 - 67); editor of the Western Journal of Medicine (1867 - 69); and co-editor of the American Practitioner (1869 - 83).

At various times he served as president of the American Medical Journalists' Association, of the American Academy of Medicine, of the American Gynecological Society, and of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society. He often spent his summer vacations in Europe and was appointed an honorary president of the obstetrical section of the International Medical Congress at Berlin (1890) and of the Periodic International Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Brussels (1892).

Among other honors, he was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member of the Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, and honorary fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society.

from: "Dictionary of American Biography, Vol VII"; 1934 "The National Cyclopedia of Biography"

Parents: Theophilus PARVIN III and Mary RODNEY.

He was married to Rachel BUTLER on 24 May 1853. Children were: Mary Rodney PARVIN , Ann Butler PARVIN, Theophilus Wylie PARVIN, Noble Butler PARVIN.

bullet Theophilus Wylie PARVIN Parents: Dr. Theophilus PARVIN IV, M.D., L.L.D. and Rachel BUTLER.

bullet Therion PARVIN (Private). Parents: George F. PARVIN and Sue ALLISON.

bullet Thomas PARVIN JR. was born before 15 Sep 1698 in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY.(369) Thomas Jr. (Probable name), was in Southampton, L.I. NY, with his father before the family moved to Fenwick Colony (Salem) New Jersey. Appears to have died before his father, leaving a son. Parents: Thomas PARVIN and Rebedkah HOLMES.

Children were: Benjamin PARVIN .

bulletThomas PARVIN was born about 1730. Parents: Matthew PARVIN and Sarah.

He was married to Hannah SHULL. Children were: Jeffery PARVIN , Matthew PARVIN, daughter PARVIN, Josiah PARVIN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN (photo) was born on 25 Mar 1663 in Hornby, Great Smeaton Parish, Yorkshire. Hornby, Great Smeaton Parish, where our original immigrant ancester Thomas Parvin and four siblings were born, is a farm village of 204 population in 1943, 8 miles north of Northallerton and 1/2 mile from the town of Great Smeaton, which is on highway A167. (Richard H. Parvin in a personal letter to the editor after a trip to Yorkshire, November 1994).
He immigrated in 1665 to County West Meath, Ireland. He immigrated before 1696 to Southhampton, Suffolk Cty, Long Island, NY. In a list of inhabitants of Southampton taken September 15, 1698, "old and young" are "Thomas Pervine", "Thomas Pervine, Jr.", and "Rebecca Parvin". In 1696, "Thomas Parvine" was assessed at Southampton; the only Parvin on the list. He resided at Fenwick's Colony about 1700 in Salem Cty., NJ. He served in the military in 1715 in Cohansey Twp., Cumberland Cty., NJ. During the Colonial Wars, Thomas was a private in Captain Joseph Seeley's company of militia, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
He died on 28 Aug 1743 in Fairton, NJ. He was buried in Presbyterian graveyard below Fairton, NJ. His tombstone is in the possession of Dr. Robert W. Parvin of Moorestown, NJ.
Thomas was a weaver and was Overseer of Roads in 1713 - 15, and was also a surveyor of Highways in 1719 - 21 and was credited with surveying the first road from the Cohansey area to Philadelphia. Parents: Francis PARVIN and Margaret SIMPSON.

He was married to Rebedkah HOLMES in 1690. (209) Children were: Elizabeth PARVIN , Hannah PARVIN, Sarah PARVIN, Thomas PARVIN JR., Josiah PARVIN, Matthew PARVIN, Jeremiah PARVIN, Silas PARVIN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN was born about 1708 in Ballykilroe, County West Meath, Ireland. Thomas settled in Bucks County with his wife Katherine. Parents: Benjamin PARVIN and Ann ENGLISH.

He was married to Katherine or Catherine. Children were: Thomas PARVIN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN was born about 1834. He died in infancy. Parents: Elam B. PARVIN and Hannah FITHIAN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN died about 1823 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Thomas appears in Crow's Station, near Danville, KY in 1784

He may have been the Thomas Parvin who lived awhile and owned property in Richland, Springfield Township, Bucks County, PA.

Thomas served as an apprentice printer under William Bradford in Philadelphia years before moving to Kentucky.

Two years after his arrival in Kentucky with his family in 1784, Thomas moved about one-half mile below Stroud's Station, in what is now Clark County, with two other families -- John Constant and James Stamper. The place was called Constant's station, for it was on his land. It was here that a grisly attack by Indians killed two Parvin children in the fields.

Constant's Station at that time consisted of four houses in a quadrangle on the south side of a lane running down to Strode's Creek, a little creek which drains the town of Winchester. James Stamper has a double house with a partition in the middle, and Thomas Parvin's family occupied the other half. Stamper's cornfield was across the lane from his house, which was 30 yards from the lane. Constant's house was further back from the lane, and his cornfield was near his house. THe house was about 150 yards from the creek and a mile from Strode's Station, where a dozen or so families lived. Morgan and Hood, who owned the other two houses in the quadrangle at Constant's Station, were not living there at the time of the raid.

Constant and Stamper were in their cornfields plowing. Two of Parvin's children were hoeing corn in Constant's field and two little Parvin children had been sent down the lane about 120 to 130 yards from the house to break some spice bushes. Other Parvin children had the measles.

When the Indians attacked, old daddy Stamper heard the noise and got inside the house. Constant might have also got in without injury, but he couldn't get the two Parvin children with him to take the alarm and run. Mrs. Constant ran to the door to see what was happening and a ball struck the cheek of the door beside her.

Between Constant's yard and the cornfield there was a little gate. The house was a new log house and hadn't been underpinned all around. It was open underneath except at the corners. The Indians shot Constant in the leg and he dragged himself on hands and feet through the gate and along the lower side of the house, nearest the creek. He would have been a fair shot for the Indians if he had attempted to reach the door by going along the side of the house and up onto the porch. His wife took up a puncheon and let him up from under the floors.

The two little Parvin children who had been breaking spice bushes alone, far from the others, were killed. They looked dreadful, like they had been tomahawked, with their heads pretty nigh cut off.

John Constant's brother Isacc, who had the measles, ran to the fort (Strode's Station) and gave the alarm. They never could track the Indians, though. Wherever they did see tracks, they were twenty or thirty yards apart. The Indians got to the barren hills and were lost sight of.

A year or so later, while Thomas was teaching school at Strode's Station (the first school in Clark County), he received several calls from John Bradford (no relation to William Bradford of Philadelphia, above), who had been appointed public printer by the state, to come to Lexington to set up and print the Kentucke Gazette -- the first printing in Kentucky. But Parvin had not printed in twenty years and his hands trembled badly with the palsy. He doubted that he could help. At length bradford sent one of his brothers to induce Parvin to come to Lexington temporarily.

When he arrived in Lexington in the summer of 1787 there was only a path where Main Street was later to be. As one contemporary put it, "jimson weeds grew so thick you couldn't see a hog on either side ten feet from the path." There he set type for the first issue of the Kentucke Gazette and on 11 August 1787, Bradford gave Parvin, the first jouneyman printer in Kentucky, the honor of striking the first sheet.

After three months Bradford asked Parvin to move permanently to Lexington and stay on the paper. As other workers developed skills, Parvin cut back to one day a week and taught school again in Lexington.

Conditions were described: "They were bad off for books -- the spelling books, the Bible and Testament, were enough in those times. THey didn't go to school with every sort of book as later. The schoolmaster made the letters and put them on the piece of board, horn-book style."

Later, Thomas Parvin moved to Bourbon County, near the Clark County line, where he lived until his death about 1823.

AUTHOR: From Rev. John D. Shane's interviews with Thomas Parvin's contemporaries, Henry Parvin, Fielding Bradford, Isaac and William Clinkenbeard; and from "The First Printing in Kentucky" by William Rouse Jillson, Sc.D., 1936 Parents: Thomas PARVIN and Katherine or Catherine.

Children were: Henry Clay PARVIN , Sarah PARVIN, little child PARVIN, little child 2 PARVIN, Arthur PARVIN, Nancy PARVIN, Benjamin PARVIN, Louise PARVIN, Elizabeth PARVIN.

bulletThomas PARVIN was born about 1817 in KY. He died in 1876 in near Red Bluff, California. Thomas went to California with John and Daniel in 1850, returning to Missouri, where he married. Thomas with Catherine and little Nannie May, returned to California by wagon train, a seven month trip, on which he worked his way by playing checkers. They settled in Sacremento and began peach farming. The three oldest children died of spinal meningitis. Shortly after Thomas Jr. was born, Tom was killed by a runaway team of horses. Catherine sold the peach crop and farm and returned to Missouri, a seven day trip by train this time. Parents: Arthur PARVIN and Elizabeth CARRINGTON.

He was married to Catherine DOCHSTADER on 13 Mar 1862 in Clinton Co., MO. Children were: Nannie May PARVIN , Arthur PARVIN, Laura PARVIN, Maggie PARVIN, Thomas Dochstader PARVIN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN was born on 31 Aug 1744. He died on 12 May 1816. Parents: Benjamin PARVIN and BRADFORD.

He was married to Hannah SHULL on 12 May 1774. Children were: Reninah (?) PARVIN, Hannah PARVIN, Thomas PARVIN, Jared PARVIN, Ruth PARVIN, Ephraim PARVIN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN Parents: Thomas PARVIN and Hannah SHULL.

bullet Thomas PARVIN was born about 1835 in Illinois. Lived in DeWitt Co., IL in 1870, and in McLean Co., IL in 1880. Parents: Benjamin PARVIN and Catherine.

He was married to Elizabeth. Children were: Charles W. PARVIN , Ida PARVIN, Hunie PARVIN .

bullet Thomas PARVIN was born in 1724 in Prob. Kings Cty., Ireland. He emigrated in 1728 from PA. He was educated between 1752 and 1754 in Ireland. He resided at Pipe Creek in 1795 in Frederick Co., MD. He died on 27 Oct 1807 in Giles Cty, VA. He served in the military Revolutionary War in Capt. Hay's Company. (370) Parents: Francis E. PARVIN and Deborah PEARSON.

He was married to Mary (or Margaret) STARR on 17 Apr 1754 in Goshen PA. Children were: Ephraim PARVIN, Deborah PARVIN, Eleanor PARVIN, Margaret PARVIN, Thomas PARVIN Jr., Ann PARVIN, Isaac PARVIN, John PARVIN, William PARVIN, Abigail PARVIN, Mark D. PARVIN, Mary PARVIN.

bullet Thomas PARVIN Jr. was born in 1765. Parents: Thomas PARVIN and Mary (or Margaret) STARR.

bullet Thomas PARVIN was born in 1820. He died in 1893. Parents: Ephram PARVIN and Maria CARDEN.

bullet Thomas Dochstader PARVIN was born on 25 Jan 1875 in Sacremento, CA. He died in 1947. Moved back to Missouri with mother and sister Maggie after Father died in California.

Lived on Parvin land near Plattsburg, MO. Parents: Thomas PARVIN and Catherine DOCHSTADER.

Children were: Jean PARVIN, Jesse Clyde "Jess" PARVIN, Barbara PARVIN , Nadine PARVIN.

bulletThomas Franklin PARVIN was born in 1869 in Grayville, White Co., IL. (371) Parents: Thomas H. PARVIN and Dorothea or Dorothy STEWART.

He was married to Alta Lily THORNTON.(372) Children were: Fletcher PARVIN, Loren Edward PARVIN, Nellie D. PARVIN, Guy Wilbur PARVIN, Harold Lehman PARVIN.

bullet Thomas H. PARVIN was born in Nov 1835 in Illinois. He died on 5 Nov 1924 in Carmi, White Co., IL. Moved to Posey County, Indiana abt 1845, later moved to Carmi, White Co., IL. Said to have lost his father and mother (Benjamin and Catherine Parvin) in an indian raid in Illinois when he was 15 (c 1850). He rode an ox to Ft. Dearborn (Chicago) to join his brother John. Later he went to Lodi, California where he had vineyards. Though he could not read or write, he became midwest sales rep. for McCormick reapers. He returned to Carmi, Illinois relatively wealthy. Thomas was a personal friend of Pat Garrett, the man who killed Billy the Kid.

He was married to Dorothea or Dorothy STEWART before 1859. Children were: Henry F. PARVIN, Eugene C. PARVIN, Thomas Franklin PARVIN.

He was married to Luella E. before 1893. Children were: Roy PARVIN.

He was married to Anna ROSS before 1911. Children were: Thomas H. PARVIN Jr..

bullet Thomas H. PARVIN Jr. (Private). Parents: Thomas H. PARVIN and Anna ROSS.

Children were: Cordele M. PARVIN, Anna Lee PARVIN.

bulletThomas Singer PARVIN was born on 4 Sep 1848 in Towanda, Bradford Co., PA. He died on 15 Jul 1912 in Wildwood, Cape May Cty, NJ. A humorous diary of Thomas's 1903 trip the Europe with his son Sewell is in the Library of Congress. It discloses that he was bald, had a wooden leg, played excellent chess, writes rhymes, was an Episcopalian and member of Philadelphia's Union League club, liked good wine, and enjoyed fishing and duck hunting. He claims to have fished with ex-President Cleveland, and saw Kaiser Wilhelm II and the King of Saxony while in Dresden. Parents: Robert James PARVIN Rev. and Adelaid Rapin SINGER.

He was married to Isabel Louisa SEWELL on 7 Jan 1873. Children were: Mary Ethel PARVIN, Robert Sewell PARVIN, Hazel Winona PARVIN.

bullet Thomas Starr PARVIN was born in 1809. Parents: Mark D. PARVIN and Martha EVANS.

bullet Thomas Sutton PARVIN was born about Dec 1832 in Fairton, Cumberland County, NJ. He died about 1902. Parents: John Abbott PARVIN and Bathsheba H. ROCAP.

He was married to Jane B.. Children were: Theodore R. PARVIN , Battie May PARVIN, Joseph H. PARVIN, Lily H. PARVIN, Boaz PARVIN.

bullet Thomas Tibbler PARVIN was born on 22 Oct 1839 in PA. Parents: Elam B. PARVIN and Hannah FITHIAN.

He was married to Mary A. KALB on 6 Feb 1862. Children were: Charles Corbitt PARVIN.

bullet Thomas Walter PARVIN (Private). Parents: Harold Lehman PARVIN and Ruth Viola WENZEL.

bullet Thurman Dale PARVIN (Private). Parents: Franklin Arthur "Art" PARVIN and Lorene ELLIS.

bullet Tim PARVIN Parents: Richard PARVIN and Stephanie.

bullet Timothy PARVIN was born about 1668 in Ballyhooney, County West Meath, Ireland. Parents: Francis PARVIN and Margaret SIMPSON.

bullet Ula PARVIN (Private). Parents: Henry McKinney PARVIN and Nora Belle PARKINS.

She was married to Herbert FLOWERS. Children were: Fred FLOWERS .

bullet Unknown PARVIN Parents: Matthew PARVIN and Sarah.

He was married. Children were: Beniah PARVIN.

bullet Uriah PARVIN was born on 30 Mar 1778 in Bridgeton, Cumberland Co., NJ. (373) Parents: Clarence PARVIN and Amy or Anna MAYHEW.

He was married to Rachel HARRIS on 14 Dec 1806. Children were: Elizabeth PARVIN , Clarence PARVIN, Elizabeth PARVIN, Lydia PARVIN, Moses Harris "Uriah" PARVIN.

bullet Van Swearingen PARVIN died in 1852. Probably died in infancy. Parents: Silas PARVIN and Angeline BUCHANAN.

bullet Vanita PARVIN (Private). Parents: Joel Henry "Joe" PARVIN and Ethel BONNEY.

She was married to WING.

She was married to Christopher James PREWITT after 1949.

bullet Velma PARVIN (Private). Parents: Henry Otis PARVIN and Hope Elizabeth RAWLINGS.

bulletVera Ruth "Ruth" PARVIN (Private). Parents: Harry Tice PARVIN and Velma B. LONG.

She was married to C. Wayne MATHENY.

bullet Verlinda PARVIN Twin Parents: John H. PARVIN and Mary F. REYNOLDS.

Children were: Gertie SIMS , Frank SIMS, Jessie SIMS , James SIMS, Bessie SIMS , Lewis SIMS.

bulletVirginia PARVIN was born in 1912 in Des Moines, Iowa. She died in 1970. Parents: William Eugene PARVIN and Hilda L. PETERSON.

bullet Wallace Lee PARVIN(374) died in 1933. He was born on 14 Jun 1933 in Manchester, Grant Co., OK. Parents: Jesse Clyde "Jess" PARVIN and Doris May HODSON.

bullet Walter A. PARVIN was born on 18 Feb 1885 in Whitman Co., WA. Parents: James Shelby "Shelby" PARVIN and Mary BROULETTE .

Children were: Basil PARVIN, Dessie PARVIN, Atha PARVIN.

bulletWarner L. PARVIN (Private). Parents: Charles Henry PARVIN Jr. and Kate H. SUPLEE.

He was married to Kathryn M. SHEAFFER. Children were: John C. PARVIN, Dr. Robert Warner PARVIN, Donald L. PARVIN, Mary K. PARVIN, Warner L. PARVIN Jr..

bullet Warner L. PARVIN Jr. (Private). Parents: Warner L. PARVIN and Kathryn M. SHEAFFER.

bullet Washington PARVIN was born in 1842. Parents: Ephram PARVIN and Maria CARDEN.

bullet Washington Lafayette Bolivar Jackson PARVIN was born on 8 May 1825 in Cedarville, NJ. Printer, Traveler, Hunter, served in both Mexican War (Private, St. Louis Group) and Civil War (Captain, Co. F; First California Volunteers), pensioned for service in Mexican War. Was a miner in California. As a trader in 1845 travelled to South America, Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Society Islands, etc. Parents: Josiah PARVIN and Lydia HARRIS.

He was married to Sarah Jane STEWART on 25 Jun 1850. Children were: Nell PARVIN.

He was married to Anna Maria POWELL on 8 Jul 1869 in Philadelphia, PA.

bullet Webster J. PARVIN was born about 1854 in Alabama. Parents: Isaac Newton PARVIN and Sarah A. ROBERSON.

bullet Wesley PARVIN Parents: Silas PARVIN and Lillie.

bullet Wilber Orrin PARVIN (Private). Parents: Orrin Wesley PARVIN and Emma Rose REED.

He was married to Lois MULLICAN on 8 Jan 1936. Children were: Carall Ann PARVIN, Judith Gradene PARVIN, Donald Orrin PARVIN.

bullet Wilber Rood PARVIN (Private). Parents: Robert Conwell PARVIN and Elizabeth Mann ROOD.

Children were: Wilma PARVIN, Rebecca PARVIN, Charles PARVIN, Benjamin PARVIN, Clinton PARVIN.

bulletWilliam PARVIN was born on 26 Feb 1790. He died on 3 Sep 1822 in Philadelphia, PA. He was buried in Bridgeton Presb. Cemetary, Bridgeton, Cumberland Co., NJ. Tombstone. A Mailman. Parents: Josiah PARVIN and Rhoda RAY.

He was married to Sarah DAVIS on 17 Mar 1819. Children were: Robert PARVIN, Edmund D. PARVIN, Albert PARVIN, Mary Ann PARVIN, Francis R. PARVIN, William PARVIN Jr., Robert B. PARVIN.

bullet William PARVIN was born about 1814. Parents: Jonathan PARVIN and Amy BATEMAN.

bullet William PARVIN was born on 19 Sep 1797 in NJ.(375) He was a Farmer in 1860.(376) He was a Fisherman in 1870.(377) He was a Retired Harness maker in 1880.(378) He resided at home of Frank Schwordtfeges, age 35, b Germany in 1880. (378) He died on 13 Dec 1882 in Muscadine Co., IA.(379) Parents: Daniel PARVIN and Elizabeth SUTTON.

He was married to Hannah WESCOTT. Children were: Elizabeth Demarest PARVIN, Lydia Mary Ann PARVIN , Daniel James PARVIN, Sarah Melissa PARVIN, Josiah Napoleon Bonoparte PARVIN, William Starms PARVIN, Hannah Jane PARVIN, Amanda Matilda PARVIN.

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