BIO:  Dr. J. De Burkarte, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 11

DR. J. DE BURKARTE, a distinguished physician and surgeon, was born in 
Philadelphia in 1831 and is the eldest son of Dr. S. and Mary De Burkarte.  His 
father was a physician of Paris, France, and his mother a native of Berlin, 
Prussia.  The subject of this sketch, in early life, received a good education 
in all the ordinary branches, as well as a knowledge of medicine, and graduated 
at Harvard College in 1849, and has finally become a physician of extensive 
practice.  During the years of 1850-51-52, he attended two full regular courses 
of lectures at the University of Philadelphia, and the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of New York, supplemented with three regular full courses of lectures 
at the University of Maryland.  He commenced the practice of medicine at 
Philadelphia, in 1858, where he remained in active practice until 1860, when he 
removed to Harrisburg, where he continued his practice until 1863, when he 
enlisted as a private in the Union Army.  In 1864 he had, through valor and 
courage, risen in the ranks to first lieutenant.  At the battle in front of 
Petersburg he was severely wounded, which confined him to the hospital.  Upon 
regaining strength he accepted an appointment as surgeon and was transferred to 
McClelland Hospital at Philadelphia, where he served until the latter part of 
August, 1865, when, on account of wounds and disability, he received an 
honorable discharge.  After a few weeks' respite he returned to Harrisburg and 
resumed his practice, continuing until 1868, when he removed to York, where he 
has since resided, engaged in active and continuous practice.  Dr. De Burkarte 
has established a large and extensive practice in York County, and keeps abreast 
with the progress of the age, not only in his profession, but in general 
literature.  As a citizen he is popular, liberal and enterprising.  In 1867 he 
was united in marriage with Miss Mary Garverich, of Scotch ancestry.  They have 
had born to them two children:  Maurice (who was a promising young medical 
student and had passed his first course of lectures at the Baltimore City 
College, and died upon the day he was to enter upon his second course at the 
University of Maryland, in the seventeenth year of his age) and Harrie.