Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John MARKLE
John Markle was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, the son of an anthracite operator, inventor, and financier. He grew up in coal country and studied mining engineering at Lafayette College, from which he graduated in 1880. That same year he was called on to manage the family enterprises when his father became ill. He served successfully as director of George B. Markle and Company for nearly fifty years and was known throughout the coal industry for his extensive reclamation of mines inundated by the great flood of 1886.
Markle believed that an individual who has funds beyond those needed for living expenses becomes "a trustee for his fellow man and should so use those funds." When he and Mrs. Mary E. Robinson Markle moved to New York City in 1902, he devoted himself to philanthropy as well as to his business interests. In 1927 he established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation--the first foundation to name both husband and wife in its title--with an initial endowment of $3 million. The terms of his will later increased this amount to about $16 million. The Foundation's assets are now approximately $180 million.
Notes for JOHN MARKLE:
John Markle, a son of the late G.B. Markle, was born in Hazleton, December 15, 1858. His father was pre-eminent in the development of the coal industry in the anthracite region. Since his death the work has been taken up by his son, and is being pushed with the same consummate energy and intelligence that characterized in so marked a degree the founder of this house. The father was the head of the firm G.B. Markle & Co., colliery operatives, and this branch of the concern has fallen to the lot of his son - the subject of this notice- and of him it may well be said, that in many respects he has given evidence that progress is as distinct a factor in his constitution now, as it was of his father in his palmiest days. The father conceived in his busy mind the coal breaker as we now have it; the son is now pushing the bold scheme of tunneling the mountain, and thereby opening the way to vast coal fields heretofore practically shut out from man's endeavors, by the waters that percolate these hills. The tunnel is being made at a vast expense, and when completed will be the most important advance in the matter of mining that has marked the decade of late rapid improvements. Mr. Markle attended private and public schools in his native town until he attained his twelfth year, when he entered the boarding school at White Plains, N.Y., known as Alexander Military Institute, remaining there three years. At this time his parents removed to Philadelphia, and for the next two years the youth attended Laudabach's Academy, in that city, afterward entering Lafayette College, in the class of 1880. He was graduated in the Mining Engineering course, after which he was appointed general superintendent of the extensive mining interests of his father's firm, in the region of Jeddo, in time succeeding his father, who was compelled to retire on account of ill health. During the entire period of his management of the affairs of the concern, he has shown talent and executive ability of a high order. At the present time he is a partner in the firm. Mr. Markle was married in January, 1884, to Miss Mary. E. Robinson, of New York City.
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