A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . Medical Department of the Pennsylvania degree of LL. D. was subsequently conferred uponhim by Hanover College, Indiana. In June, 1853, Doc-tor Parvin married Rachel, youngest daughter of thelate Amos Butler, of Hanover, Indiana, and soon aftermoved to Indianapolis, where he has resided and prac-ticed ever since, with the exception of about two years,in which he resided at Cincinnati, Ohio. Doctor Parvinwas professor in the Me
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . Medical Department of the Pennsylvania degree of LL. D. was subsequently conferred uponhim by Hanover College, Indiana. In June, 1853, Doc-tor Parvin married Rachel, youngest daughter of thelate Amos Butler, of Hanover, Indiana, and soon aftermoved to Indianapolis, where he has resided and prac-ticed ever since, with the exception of about two years,in which he resided at Cincinnati, Ohio. Doctor Parvinwas professor in the Medical College of Ohio from 1864to 1869, and filled a similar position in the MedicalDepartment of the University of Louisville from 1869to 1872. He is now professor of obstetrics and diseasesof women and children in the College of Physiciansand Surgeons of Indiana. He is a member of the In-diana State Medical Society, and an ex-president of thesame body, and is a permanent member of the Ameri-can Medical Association. He is a gentleman of culti-vated literary tastes, an accomplished linguist, a pro-found scholar, and as a practitioner of medicine his. »^ T^il-VT^v^ 7th Dist.] REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF INDIANA. 263 success has been almost phenomenal. His many contri-butions to the medical literature of the day have madehis name familiar as a househokl word in the profession,where he is universally honored and highly esteemed asa physician and a man. He is extremely reticent inmanner, and so abhors publicity that the material forthis meager and unsatisfactory sketch has to be obtainedwithout his knowledge and consent, and is therefore in-complete in many details, but entirely reliable as far asit goes. He is a gentleman of fine physique, a splendidtype of intellectual manhood, and at the bedside of thepoor as well as the wealthy his presence is productiveof hopefulness and encouragement. He is still a closestudent and in the very heyday of healthful and vigor-ous manhood. As a repres
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