Mark W. Levert, M. D.; Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Mark W. Levert, M. D., a member of a family that has been one of special
prominence and influence in connection with the sugar planting industry in
Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes, was born in the former parish,
February 6, 1574, and in the latter parish he is now established in the
successful practice of his profession at Brusly.  In the preceding sketch
of this work adequate data concerning the family history are given in the
personal sketch of the Doctor's elder brother, Sidney A.

After receiving due educational discipline of a Preliminary order Dr.
Levert entered Spring Hill College. Mobile, Alabama, and in this
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893.  Thereafter
he passed one year as a student in Tulane University, New Orleans, and he
then entered the medical department of the University of the South, at
Sewanee, Tennessee.  From this excellent institution he received in 1896
his degree of doctor of "Medicine, and in 1898 he engaged in the general
practice of his profession in Avoyelles Parish, where he remained about
three years.  He then, in 1901, established his residence at Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, where he has built up a substantial and representative
practice and is a liberal and progressive Citizen Whim) commands
unqualified popular esteem.  He is a member of the Louisiana State medical
Society, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of
Columbus and the Woodmen of the World, and in their home village he and his
wife are communicants of the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist.  The
Doctor takes lively interest in all that concerns the communal welfare, and
he has served as coroner of West Baton Rouge Parish.

November 14, 1900, recorded the marriage of Doctor Levert and Miss Sue
Postell, daughter of Dr. Philip and Pauline Postell, Doctor Postell being a
leading physician and surgeon at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish.  Doctor and
Mrs. Levert have three children:  Charles F.,  Mark W., Jr., and  Samuel Logan.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 189, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.