Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Berkley, Samuel L. 1864 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    SAMUEL L. BERKLEY, successful druggist of Santa Monica, was born in the town
of Lowell, Muskingum County, Ohio, March 30th, 1864. His father, Thomas J.
Berkley, was a native of Frederick County, Va., and there spent his boyhood and
youth. He left home when a young man and located at Lowell, Ohio, where he
engaged somewhat extensively in the milling business until 1871. He there
married Nancy De Long, and there six daughters and three sons were born. In 1871
the family removed to Virginia and lived at Winchester, Frederick County, until
1875, when they came west to Harrison County, Iowa. Samuel L. Berkley is the
sixth child of the family. He was seven years old when the family left Ohio to
live in Virginia and eleven years old when they located in Iowa. He attended the
public schools of Winchester, Va., and finished in the Missouri Valley High
School. He learned the drug business at Woodbine, la., and there spent about
twenty years in the business. He married at Woodbine, in 1888, Miss Ruby A.
Kling, daughter of Jacob R. and Emily Bliss Kling, of Troy Center, Walworth
County. Wisconsin, and they have three sons, Hugh Kling, Laurence Jay, and
Robert De Long.

    Mr. and Mrs. Berkley are members of the Baptist Church. He is a member of
the Woodmen of the World.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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