Parke Family journals

Thomas Edge Parke, son of John A. and Anna Edge Parke, was a Quaker physician of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and active member of Downingtown Preparative and Uwchlan Monthly Meetings. He was born 1 mo 3, 1851, and died 12 mo 12, 1913. He married first Maribah Willits in 2 mo 1881. She died a year after their marriage, followed shortly by the death of their son. Thomas E. Parke earned a his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and practiced medicine in Downingtown until his retirement in 1894. He was a founder and manager of Chester County Hospital and active in local politics, business and Quaker concerns.

In 1888 he married second Mary A. Bacon, daughter of William Henry and Hannah Haines Bacon of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a birthright member of Frankford Monthly Meeting, born 11 month 24, 1855, and died 11 month 10, 1927. The couple had two sons: William (1891-1902) and Thomas (1901-1965) who married Caroline Lippincott Hoopes. Mary Bacon Parke was active in Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, serving as an Elder, and other philanthropic concerns.