Franklin County, KY - Bios:  Berkhart, Joseph
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Joseph BERKHART 3396, Franklin Co. 

Surname: Berkhart, Fush, Gobber

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 887, Franklin Co.

JOSEPH BERKHART was born in Baden, Germany, July 15, 1850, and is a son of Andy and Mary 
Berkhart. Joseph, with his father, came to the United States in 1854; landed at New York, 
where he remained a short time, and moved to Indiana; lived there eleven years, and then 
Joseph went to Louisville, Ky., and worked in a confectionery shop about five years; then 
came to Frankfort and opened a confectionery store, and was engaged in that about two years 
as a clerk for S. Fush; he then opened a grocery and saloon, July 12, 1883, and has been 
successfully engaged in that business ever since. He married Mary Gobber, of Frankfort, 
May 4, 1886. Both he and wife are members of the Catholic Church.