George H. Baert, M. D. George H. Baert, M.D., whose well-appointed office is in the Kendall building, Grand Rapids, was born in Zeeland, Ottawa county, Mich., January 15, 1870, and is a son of Dr. Daniel and Katie (Bonstra) Baert, natives of the Netherlands. Dr. Daniel Baert came to America in young manhood, received his medical education in Zeeland, Mich., and has been in continuous practice for the past thirty-eight years, and it may be surmised that it is through his monitory advice and wise instruction that the subject of this sketch has so rapidly risen into professional prominence. Dr. George H. Baert received his literary education in Hope college, Holland, in his native county, where he attended four years. From the university of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, he received the degree of Ph. G. in 1890, and later he was instructor in chemistry at Purdue university in Lafayette, Tippecanoe county, Ind. The degree of M.D. was conferred upon him by the university of Pennsylvania in 1893. He then at once entered upon the active practice of his profession in Grand Rapids, but three years later took a course in the Post-graduate Hospital college in New York City, at the conclusion of which he resumed his practice in Grand Rapids, which practice has now increased in somewhat enviable proportions. Dr. Baert is professor of pathology and pathological chemistry in Grand Rapids Medical college, and in 1897 he was elected a member of the Grand Rapids board of education from the Fifth ward. In this body he is a member of the committee of teachers and of the committee on a apparatus and school library. The marriage of Dr. Baert took place in Chicago, Ill., October 19, 1897, to Miss Martina Marguerite DeVos, a native of Chicago, and a graduate of its high school. They are the parents of a daughter, Kathleen, born October 20, 1898. The church relations of the doctor and his wife are with the Dutch Reformed church, and their social relations are with the most refined and intellectual residents of Grand Rapids. Politically, the doctor is independent.