Carey, Mark Oliver

Submitted by Mike Miller

Mark Oliver Carey, Doctor of Dental Surgery, has practiced his profession for fifteen years at Algiers in Orleans Parish, his office being at 341 Bermuda Street. Dr. Carey is a very able man in his profession, and has interested himself in civic, fraternal and other affairs in his home community. He was born at Gravesland, England, September 7, 1884. His father, Thomas William Carey, a native of Bristol, England, was a contractor, and one of his achievements while in England was the construction of the Tillbury Dock on the River Thames in London. He came to New Orleans in 1888 and continued his business at the port of New Orleans as a contractor and engineer until his death in 1918, at the age of seventy. He married a Miss Hancock, a native of Lancaster-shire, England, who died at New Orleans in 1924, at the age of seventy-five. Mark Oliver Carey was four years of age when brought to New Orleans. He acquired a public school education in that city, attending the Boy's High School, and in 19Q9 graduated from the New Orleans College of Dentistry. He practiced for a time with his brother, Dr. W. T. Carey, but in 1910 established his office at Algiers. He is a competent surgeon in the dental field, and is a member of the First Second District Dental Society, the Louisiana State and National Dental Societies. Dr. Carey has deeply interested himself in the subject of Masonry, and is a member of the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery, the Grand Consistory of the Scottish Rites and the Mystic Shrine. He is a vestryman in the Mount Olivet Episcopal Church of Algiers. Dr. Carey married, June 25, 1908, at Algiers Miss Mary L. Schroeder, who was born in Algiers, daughter of John and Mars' J. (Guy) Schroeder. Her father died in 1916 and her mother in 1921, John Schroeder was for twenty-six years an engineer on the well known Mississippi River steamboat Jenny Wilson. He was also active in the Masonic fraternity. Dr. and Mrs. Carey have two children: Martha N. and Mark Oliver, Jr.

NOTE: The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 48, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.