Person:John Parkin (12)

Research notes

• named after his maternal grandfather John Still Winthrop (1720-1776)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Deceased during the year ending in Jul 1867 [1], in Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College.

   1809.
   JOHN STILL WINTHROP PARKIN died in N. Y. City, Nov. 2, 1866, aged 74 years. He entered College from New London, Conn. He was a physician by profession, and had long been a resident of New York City.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
   6:274.

   JOHN STILL WINTHROP PARKIN was born in New London, Connecticut, on March 25, 1792. His father, Richard William Parker, a native of Malton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, emigrated to this country as a young man, and married Mary, daughter of John Still Winthrop (Yale 1737), of New London. He died in comparative youth, leaving a family of six children, and this son was educated by his uncle, Francis Bayard Winthrop, who was also the father of one of his classmates. He began his preparation for College in the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, and completed it under the Rev. Frederick W. Hotchkiss (Yale 1778), of Saybrook.
   
   He studied medicine in New York, and as he expected to practice in the South, he also studied pharmacy, so as to be able to compound his own prescriptions.
   
   He settled in Selma, Alabama, and while there, besides practicing his profession, kept a general store.
   
   He married in Selma, Alabama, in 1818, Mary Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Hitchcock (Harvard 1777), of Vergennes, Vermont ; her mother was Lucy Caroline, second daughter of General Ethan Allen, and one of her brothers, General Ethan Allen Hitchcock (U.S. Mil. Acad. 1817), was a distinguished soldier. She died in Selma on September 16, 1823, leaving an only child, who was the father of William Parkin (Yale 1874).
   
   He returned to New York City in 1824, and there resumed practice. On June 12, 1834, he was married by the Rev. Dr. John Frederick Schroeder (Princeton 1819) to Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Parsons, daughter of the late Ralph Thurman, of Troy, by whom he had seven children, four of whom are still living.
   
   In 1839 of 1840 he retired from practice, at his wife's solicitation, on the ground of the wearing nature of his occupation, and its insufficient returns. He had been especially overworked during an epidemic of the yellow fever, his experience of which at the South had made his services much in demand.
   
   For some years he resided in Newark, New Jersey, but later returned to New York, and died there on November 2, 1866, in his 75th year.