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Thomas H. Garvin November 16, 1842 - 
Hart-Green County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume I, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886.

THOMAS H. GARVIN, M.D., was born in Green County, Ky., November 16, 1842, and 
is the eldest of eleven children born to Isaac and Elizabeth C. (Curry) Garvin, 
natives of Mercer and Green Counties, respectively, and of Scotch-Irish and 
English descent. Isaac Garvin, at the age of ten years, lost his father, after 
which he remained at home with his mother on the old homestead until he attained his majority; he then learned the tobacconist's trade, which he followed for some years, but afterward engaged in agricultural pursuits in Green and Hart Counties which he continued to follow until his death, September, 1873, at the age of sixty-six years; he was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and also f the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Garvin is yet living, and resides with her daughter in Hart County. She is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and has been from her girlhood; she is now in her sixty-fourth year. Her father, Thomas Curry, was a native of the Old Dominion, and was among the early pioneers of Green County, Ky. Dr. Thomas H. Garvin as employed on the home farm until he was nineteen years old, when he enlisted in Company B, Second Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (Confederate service, Gen. John H. Morgan's first command), and served with that regiment in all its marches and engagements until captured with Gen. Morgan in southern Ohio in 1863; he was afterward retained a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, for about eighteen months, when he was exchanged. The command finally surrendered at Vicksburg in June, 1865. Immediately after his return from the army he commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Thomas A. Webster, of Greensburg, Ky. He graduated with high honors from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville with the class of 1874, since which time he has practiced his profession with unvarying success in Hart County - for the past ten years at Horse Cave. The Doctor was married, April 11, 1866, to Miss Sarah E. Forbes, a native of Metcalfe County, Ky. She was born December 15, 1840, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bunnell) Forbes. Three children have blessed this union: Edwin Lee, Annise Delora and Marvin Lawrence. The Doctor and wife have been from early life devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal church South; he is also a member of the K. of H. In politics he is a Democrat, and an earnest advocate of the temperance cause.



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