Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Ike MD, Edgar M. March 21, 1867 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

EDGAR M. IKE, M.D., 
one of the young and promising physicians of Altoona, is the only son and
child of Jerry and Ada (Burket) Ike, and was born at the cross roads near
Warrior's Mark, in Warrior's Mark township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania,
March 21, 1867. His father, Jerry Ike, was born in Huntingdon county in 1842,
and received a good literary education which he supplemented by a thorough
business course at the Iron City Commercial college of Pittsburg, from which
he was graduated with high standing. In the latter part of the year 1867 he
removed to Tyrone, where he was engaged in the general mercantile business
until 1892, during which time he served as principal of the Tyrone schools
for three years. In the spring of the last named year he came to Altoona,
where he was resided ever since. Near the close of the late great civil war
he volunteered in a Union regiment that was being recruited, but before he
was mustered into the United States service he was prostrated by a severe
attack of rheumatism, from which he did not fully recover until the last
Confederate army had surrendered, and peace was restored in the land. He is a
republican in politics, and has been an active member of the United Brethren
church for nearly a quarter of a century. While at Tyrone he served as a
member of the town council, but refused the nomination for burgess, although
he allowed himself to be placed before the public as a candidate for school
director, and such was his popularity that but four votes were cast against
him in the city of Tyrone. He comes of a rather long-lived race of people,
and his mother, whose maiden name was Catherine Branstetler, was of German
descent, and lived to be eighty-one years of age. Mr. Ike married Ada Burket,
a daughter of Peter Burket, of Warrior's Mark, who formerly followed farming
and tanning, but is now living a retired life. They have but one child, the
subject of this sketch.
Edgar M. Ike was reared at Tyrone, where he attended and was graduated from
the high school of that place. He then entered Lebanon Valley college of
Lebanon county, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1885.
Leaving college, he was engaged in the drug business during 1886, during which
time he determined upon medicine as his life vocation. He read with Dr.
Burket, of Tyrone, and then entered Jefferson Medical college, of
Philadelphia, and was graduated from that institution on the 4th of April,
1888. After graduation, he spent some time in the office of Dr. Charles
Wilson, a specialist in the diseases of women. In the autumn of the year 1888
he came to Altoona, where he has remained ever since and has a good practice.
   He was united in marriage with Emma, daughter of William Gough, who was well
connected in his native country of England, and died on the ocean while
returning to his home here from a visit to that country.
   Doctor Ike is a member of the United Brethren church, and in politics a
republican. In addition to the practice of his profession he deals to some
extent in real estate, and serves as president of the Altoona Carpet Cleaning
and Upholstering Company, which he helped to organize.

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