Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Burket MD, Dr. George Washington March 4, 1832 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

GEORGE WASHINGTON BURKET, M.D., the oldest practicing physician in Tyrone,
Pa., was born at Smicksburg, Indiana County, Pa., March 4, 1832, and is a son
of Jacob and Catherine (Miller) Burket.
     Jacob Burket, father of Dr. Burket, was born in York County, Pa., July
28, 1879, and died at Brookville, Jefferson County, Pa., July 26, 1880. He
removed from York and settled in Sinking Valley and then moved to Indiana
County in 1831, and in 1844, to Brookville, in Jefferson County. He was
engaged in the mercantile and other lines of business until retiring from
active life. Jacob Burket was thrice married and he was the father of
numerous children. The mother of Dr. Burket bore the maiden name of Catherine
Miller. She was born August 23, 1811, and died at Brookville, April 12, 1884.
     George W. Burket obtained his early education in the district schools
and Brookville Academy. He read medicine in the office of Dr. George Watt, of
Brookville, and graduated at the Cleveland, O., Medical College, in the class
of 1857. His first location for practice was at Elderton, Armstrong County,
where he remained for ten years. In 1867 he took a course in Bellevue
Hospital, New York City, graduating in the same year and immediately
afterward coming to Tyrone, where for forty-four years he has been in
continuous practice. Although the practice of medicine is acknowledged to be
one of great nervous as well as physical strain, Dr. Burket has met its
demands for over a half century, without any diminution of his mental powers
and with remarkably few tokens of advancing age. Here and there a careful
observer may find a few gray hairs but his whole appearance suggests one many
years younger.
     In the autumn of 1856, Dr. Burket was married to Miss Fancy Burket, a
daughter of Major John Burket, of Center County, Pa. Dr. Burket's office and
residence are located on the same site on which he first settled in 1867,
this home being a landmark with the older residents, who have many times
enjoyed a gracious hospitality here. Dr. and Mrs. Burket are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Tyrone, of which he is a trustee and to which
he has always given generous support. His professional affiliations include
membership in the Blair County, Pennsylvania State and the American Medical
Associations. He is identified also with Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, F.& A.M., at
Tyrone. Dr. Burket is one of Tyrone's most substantial and most highly
esteemed citizens.

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