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Born 1832
From A history and biographical cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with illustrations and sketches of its representative men and pioneers (1882), Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905)
CONSTANTINE MARKT.
Constantine Markt, M. D., president of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of Ohio, is a native of Spaiohingen, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, Germany, where he was born on the 25th of February, 1832. His father, Karl Markt, was a dealer in clothing, and for sixteen years was one of the twelve associate judges of i the district, to whom was confided the duty of sitting in judgment at the trial of offenders, two with the supreme judge constituting a quorum. His mother was named i Mary. One of Hr. Markt’s brothers had been forced to leave Germany on accountof political troubles in 1848, and had settled in Thompson, Lake County, Ohio. He wrote repeatedly to his father to come over with his family, and settle here also. Constantine was opposed to this, but after the death of his mother, which happened in 1852, he abandoned opposition to the plan, and, with his father, one brother, and three sisters, embarked for America in 1854. What they should do in the New World he did not know. He had received his early education in the schools of his native town, and at the age of fourteen began attending a seminary, where he prepared himself for the university, and where he grad- [ uated three years later, having taken the classical course. He was then made a teacher under the government, remaining attentive to his duties until his departure for j America.
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In 1856, having attained sufficient means and a. competent knowledge of the English tongue, he began attending lectures at the Eclectic Medical College, in Cincinnati, under charge of Dr. Cleveland, who died in Nashville, Tennessee, during the war, and was graduated in 1858. He at once came to Hamilton, and entered upon practice, being married the same year. Here he was at once, successful- His easy and agreeable manners.- his imperturbable coolness, his command of all the resources of the physician’s art, at once made him a favorite. A year after coming here he was made brigadesunreon of this district for the militia. During: the war he was influential and active. He attended assiduous! v to his calling for many years, but finally, after a long attack of illness, became convinced that he had given too intense a devotion to his profession. He resolved to abandon the duties of a visiting physician, and bought the drug-store formerly owned by J. W. Baldridge, No. 13 Third Street, which had been established years before by John O. Brown. To propose, however, is one thing, and to do is another. Many of his old patients refused to leave him, and he found that he had, in addition to ' his medical practice, a drug-store on his hands. He had also, during his many years of residence here, acquired great skill as an operator in difficult cases of surgery, and in this respect his reputation has increased with time.
He was married in 1858 to Miss Josephine G. Carpender, daughter of his old preceptor. Dr. Joseph Brown Carpender (who was a man of much prominence in the medical profession as well as in other ways). He was a native of Milton, Vermont, and the son of a physician. Mrs. Caroline Jackson Carpender was the mother. Dr. Carpender graduated at the Burlington Medical College about 1826. He came West in 1835, and settled in Wellsvilie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, but in 1843 went to Painesville, Ohio, where he practiced until his death, in 1861, at the age of fifty-five. He had been mayor of Painesville, and for several years president of the school board. He was a man of great probity of character, and for years exerted a marked influence in the affairs of the town. Mrs. Carpender died in 1865. She was also a native of Milton, Vermont. Dr. and Mrs. Markt have had three children, two ot whom are now living. Adelaide C. Markt was born July 25, 1860, and Karl Constantine, August 16, 1873. Mrs. Markt is a Presbyterian in religion, and a lady who enjoys the highest esteem of all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance, and is considered one of the most popular in the social circles of Hamilton, She secretary of the Butler County Children’s Home, and <>ne of the managers. She is one of its founder. and a
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He is a member of the Miami Medical Society, the State Medical Association (of which lie is president), the National Medical Society, president of the Physicians' Protective Association of Hamilton, and county examining physician of the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Honor, and a contributor to various medical periodicals. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of Honor, and the Royal Arcanum. He was the leader of the Miennerehor in this city for several years, and brought it to a high stage of excellence. Since entering upon medicine he lias found but little leisure for this favorite pursuit. He is the secretary of the board of health, and has been so for eighteen years; has been a member of the school board, and La.? tilled other offices of prominence and responsibility. In person Dr. Markt is tall and commanding, in manners courteous and obliging, and in business thorough and exact. No man is better esteemed in Hamilton, and when a friend has once been made by him he is always kept.
As printed in A history and biographical cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with illustrations and sketches of its representative men and pioneers (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
CONSTANTINE MARKT, M. D.
This representative member of the medical profession in Butler county, where he has been long established in practice, retaining his residence in the city of Hamilton, was born in Spaichingen, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, on the 25th of February, 1832, being a son of Karl and Mary Markt, likewise natives of that kingdom, where the latter died in the year 1852. The eldest of their six children was Jacob, and he emigrated to the United States in 1849, settling in Geauga county, Ohio, where he conducted a tailoring business and dealt in clothing. He was a valiant soldier during the Civil war and was wounded in the battle of Murfreesboro, his injuries being so severe as to cause his discharge from the service, by reason of disability. He never recuperated and his death, which occurred in 1871, was the diametrical result of his injuries. He sold his business in Ohio and removed to Wisconsin, where his death occurred. The presence of this son and brother in America led the aged father and his other children to consider the advantages and attractions of the new world, and in 1854 they crossed the ocean, coming to Ohio, where they made a short visit in Geauga county, removing to Painesville in the fall of that year. Of the other children we enter the following brief record: Francis J. died in 1856; Constantine is the immediate subject of this sketch; Victoria became the wife of Gottleib Reif and they removed to Portland, Oregon, where he died and where she still resides; Catherine is the widow of Frederick Spinner and resides in Iowa: and Maria Theresa died on the same day as did her brother Francis, both having succumbed to typhoid fever. The father passed to his reward in 1868, at the venerable age of seventy-four years.
The father of the Doctor was well advanced in years when he came to America, and thereafter much of the responsibility of caring for the family devolved upon the subject, who was the eldest son at home. He* had received an excellent education in the schools of the fatherland, where he was graduated in one of the national colleges, while he was also very proficient in both vocal and instrumental music. This accomplishment proved a source of profit in enabling him to provide for the support of the family, and he found much pleasure in his musical work, but he was not satisfied to follow music teaching as a permanent vocation, aspiring to professional success as a physician and surgeon. His leisure hours were thus passed in careful technical study, under the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph B. Carpenter, of Painesville. It was not, however, until after the death of his brother and sister and the marriage of the other sisters that he could entertain the thought of entering a medical college to complete his studies. He entered the Eclectic Medical College, in Cincinnati, in 1856, and was there graduated as a member of the class of 1858, in which his studious habits and close application had given him high rank.
Very soon after receiving his coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine, the subject located rm Hamilton, where he has ever since been actively engaged in practice and where he has attained high standing in the profession, building up a large and representative business. He has always maintained an enviable position among his colleagues in Hamilton and has been successful beyond his most sanguine expectations. His extensive practice and close application to his professional duties so impaired his health that he finally felt compelled to withdraw largely from his country practice, which at one time required the use of three horses, and he then, about 1869, engaged in the drug business and reduced his professional labors to practically an office practice. After four years of this semi-active life he turned his drug business over to assistants and again resumed the active practice of his profession, and here we find him today, with his energies divided between mercantile pursuits and the practice of medicine. Though devoted to his profession Dr. Markt has found time for general reading and has taken an active interest in political, social and religious affairs. An ardent Republican, he has been in the field as a campaign orator in every presidential election since 1860, though he has never sought official preferment for himself. He has been a lifelong student and has surrounded himself with those ever loyal friends, choice books, his handsome home, at 214 South Second street, being a veritable storehouse of the best in classical and contemporary literature of the best order. The Doctor is versatile, companionable, easy of approach, loyal to his friends, and devoted to his family and home.
On the 30th of December, 1858, Dr. Constantine Markt was married to Miss Josephine C. Carpenter, daughter of his early preceptor, Dr. Joseph Brown Carpenter, of Painesville. Dr. Carpenter was born in Milton, Vermont, where he was educated and where he initiated his professional career. He was graduated in Burlington Medical College in 1826, and came to Painesville, Ohio, in 1843, there passing the residue of his life as a prominent and successful practitioner of medicine and surgery. He died in 1861, at the age of fifty-five years. His wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Jackson, was likewise born in Milton, and she survived her honored husband by about four years, entering into eternal rest in 1865. On the material side the ancestry is traceable to the Revolutionary epoch, and Mrs. Markt is a valued member and chief official in the Hamilton chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also a charter member of the Children’s Home Commission in this city, the same having been organized thirty-four years ago, and she has ever been an active and devoted worker for this noble institution. She is a woman of culture and gracious refinement and has ever shown a deep humanitarian spirit and sympathy, gaining the affectionate regard of those who have come within the sphere of her kindly influence. Dr. and Mrs. Markt have two children. The daughter, Addie Carpenter, is the wife of Edward Sohngen, of Hamilton, a prominent business man and leading manufacturer, and they have two children, Josephine Markt and Elizabeth Adelaide. The son, Karl C.. still remains at the parental home. He was born on the 16th of August, 1873, arid has received a liberal education and is a graduate in pharmacy, a profession which he followed for several years in connection with his father’s drug business, but he is now identified with other lines of business enterprise.
In 1858 Dr. Markt was appointed brigade surgeon of the Southern division of the Ohio militia, and he held this office until the brigade entered active service in the Civil war. He was for ten years secretary of the board of trustees of the Lane Library and to him is due much of the early popularity and upbuilding of that valuable institution. He was for a long period a member of the Hamilton board of health, serving as secretary of the same for eighteen years, while for four years was treasurer of the board of education. He has long been one of the honored members of the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he was president for two years.
As printed in Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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