Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Dr. A. E. MARDICK

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 925, 926

Dr. A. E. Mardick was born in the State of Virginia, in February, 1816.
His parents were Andrew C. and Bell (Quigg) Mardick, who were of Scotch
descent; the father was a stockman, and, when our subject was young,
the parents moved to Westmoreland County, Penn., where he was educated
in the private schools.  At the age of seventeen he commenced the study
of medicine, and completed a course in medicine in the University of
Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in March, 1837, as a
physician and surgeon.  He then took a trip to St. Louis, where he
remained a few months, and, returning to Pennsylvania, he entered the
United States Navy, on board the Missouri.  He spent one year on the
water, visiting South America and the West Indies, and, after his return, 
again went to St. Louis, where he opened an office and engaged in 
practice.  The following year he received appointment as Assistant 
Surgeon of the United States Army, Second Dragoons, in which capacity
he served seven years.  He was wounded in the leg at Monterey, during
the Mexican War, and was granted a furlough, when he returned to St. Louis
and resumed his practice there.  In 1850 he moved to Charleston, Mo.,
where he devoted his attention to the profession until the outbreak of 
the late war, when he went to Helena, Ark., remaining one year, and,
during the war, having passes from both armies, he did much to relieve
the wounded, without compensation other than the gratefulness of those he
cared for.  Returning to Charleston, he remained there until 1865, 
spending the following two years on a farm in Mississippi County, Mo.
He lived one year at Union City, Tenn., when he removed to Barton County,
Mo., and , from 1874 to 1886, he was actively engaged in the practice
of medicine.  In the latter year he retired, on account of ill health,
giving up a large and lucrative practice.  The Doctor was married, in
St. Louis, in 1848, to Miss Caroline O. Harra, a native of Canada, of
English descent; she died in 1857, at the age of forty-five years. The
children by this marriage were: Laura, wife of Robert B. Ward, of 
Harrisonville, Mo.; Alex. E., a resident of Golden City, Mo.; John W., a
grocer in Golden City; and Margaret C., wife of Charles Ford, also of
Golden City.  In 1858 Dr. Mardick married Rebecca Kendrick, a native of
Virginia.  They have one child, John Y., now a shorthand reporter of
Charleston.  The Doctor is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
and of the A.F. & A.M.

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