Background
Marks, Lewis Hart was born on July 14, 1883 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Son of Ferdinand and Fanny (Bensadon) Marks. He died in Paoli, Pennsylvania, on March 10, 1958.
executive industrial consultant.
Marks, Lewis Hart was born on July 14, 1883 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Son of Ferdinand and Fanny (Bensadon) Marks. He died in Paoli, Pennsylvania, on March 10, 1958.
Doctor of Medicine Tulane University, 1906. Post-graduate Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities.
Superintendent Emergency (yellow fever) Hospital, New Orleans, epidemic of 1905. Voluntary assistant Royal Institute for Experimental Therapeutics, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1907, assistant, 1908, member Institute, 1910, being first foreigner and youngest man ever appointed to this position in Germany. Resigned 1912 to become director Institute for Medical Research, Frankfurt am Main (an institution founded for Doctor Marks, by a committee of America philanthropists).
Institution closed on account of war. Marks next became a commercial agent selling serums to the German Army. He was also active in 1914-1917 as an informant for the German government, reporting on the American correspondents in Germany and promoting the German side of the war in the USA. Marks returned to the United States, 1917. Founder and manager pharmaceutical div., National Aniline & Chemical Company, 1920-1925.
Executive secretary Industrial Alcohol Institute, 1926-1933. President Continental Distilling Corporation, 1933-January 1940 (resigned). Became executive vice president Publicker Commercial Alcohol Company, September 1940, also president Bigler Chemical Corporation.
Consultant in chemical, distillery and pharmaceutical industries. Officer Order of Military Merit, 1st Class (Spain). Holder of Red Cross Medallion, 1st Class (Germany), Red Cross Officer Cross (Austria).
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member German Society for History of Medicine. Member American Institute Chemists, American Chemical Society, Society American Bacteriologists, Phi Rho Sigma.
Clubs: Chemists of New York (president 1933-1935).
Married Miriam Sears (playwright), July 19, 1931.