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A. H. BURKET, physician, post office McKee’s Rocks, son of David and Elizabeth Burket, was born in Washington county, Pa., in 1847. In that county David passed most of his life in farming, teaching and surveying. He married Elizabeth Hess, of that county, and their children were John H. (a physician of twenty years’ practice), A. H., Lydia (who married, in 1870, James Provost, of this county; she died in 1872, her husband about two years afterward), Mary A., wife of Harvey Williams; she died leaving a son, who resides in Monongahela City, Pa., and a daughter, Lizzie Rose Etta, who died at the age of four years, and an infant daughter unnamed. The father of this family died Nov. 23, 1883, at the age of eighty years; his widow now resides with Dr. Burket, in Stowe township, aged seventy-eight years. Dr. Burket was reared on a farm, but determined early in life to obtain an education. In addition to the common schools he attended Hoge’s Summit and other academies, studied medicine and graduated at the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1877. He thence came to Stowe township, where he has since continued to practice his profession, and has made an enviable reputation as a practitioner. He married, Oct. 11, 1878, Mary J., daughter of Henry and Martha Bruce, of this county, and they have one child — Blanche E. The doctor is a member of the Allegheny County Medical society; he is an adherent of the M. E. Church.