Martz, George J, MD

Posted By: Wally Garchow
Date: 21 November 2004

transcribed from A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio, Lewis Publishing Company, part II, pp 568-69

GEORGE J. MARTZ, M. D.

Among those who are devoting their energies to the healing art in Greenville is Dr. George J. Martz, who was born in the which is still his home on the 21st of Auggust, 1867, his parents being George H. and Angie E. (Jamison) Martz. His pateernal grandfather, John Martz, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Somerset county June 1, 1798, and in 1829 came to Ohio, taking up his abode in Darke county. George H. Martz, the father of the Doctor, was born upon a farm in Greenville township, Darke county, April 19, 1831. For a number of years he engaged in teaching in Greenville and Darke county. His wife was one of Ohio's native daughters, her birth having occurred in Delaware county in February, 1837.

Dr. Martz, of this review, acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Greenville and continued his studies in the high school, in which he was graduated in the class of 1887. Subsequently, he engaged in teaching in Darke county for a time, and then took up the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. W. H. Matchett, of Greenville. He entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and on completing the prescribed course in that institution was graduated in March, 1891. In the village of Palestine, Darke county, he began practicing, remaining there for eight years, when, wishing to seek a broader field of labor, he took up his abode in Greenville, where he has since remained. He has gained a prestige which many an older practitioner might envy and excellent results have attended his care of the sick, making him a most successful young medical practitioner with a bright future before him. He has been a close and earnest student of his profession, and in 1899 took a post-graduate course in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a charter member of the Darke County Medical Society and also of the Ohio State Pediatric Society.

On the 31st of October, 1898, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Martz and Miss Bitha Cassatt, of Greenville, a daughter of Rev. J. W. Cassatt, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. They enjoy the hospitality of the best homes in the city and their own residence is the center of a cultured social circle. The Doctor is a prominent and valued member of Greenville Lodge, No. 143, F. & A. M., and of the Knights of Pythias, and has represented the latter in the grand lodge. His professional career has been one of continued advancement and his future will undoubtedly be a successful one, for he is a man of strong mentality, which enables him to master the principles of medical science and practice, and at the same time he possesses that deep human sympathy without which no one ever made much advancement as a representative of the medical fraternity.

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