He later attended
Columbus Medical College, moved to
Cincinnati, and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1877. He practiced for five years. He later went to
New York City in 1882 and was graduated from the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1883. He then again resumed practice in
East Liverpool, Ohio.
Congress Ikirt was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. He was elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894.
Later career and death He resumed the practice of medicine in East Liverpool, Ohio, and died there. He is buried in Riverview Cemetery. ==Family life ==