BIO: Samuel M. HERVEY, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 366-369.
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  SAMUEL M. HERVEY, burgess and justice of the peace in Rochester, Beaver
  county, Pa., is one of the leading business men of that borough, and is
  highly esteemed by all of his fellow-townsmen. He is very well known
  throughout the county, and comes from an excellent family. He was born
  January 4, 1856, in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa., and is a son of the
  late Rev. D. W. C. Hervey, and a grandson of James Hervey, who was of
  Scotch-Irish descent. James Hervey was a farmer in Fayette county, but was a
  weaver by trade, and also conducted a cotton and woolen mill; after the
  factory burned he retired.
  
  Rev. D. W. C. Hervey, the father of Samuel M., became in early life a Baptist
  minister, and occupied the pulpit in Freeport, Kittanning and New Castle; he
  also served six years in the Providence church in Beaver county, and in
  Jefferson county, Pa. He then went to Illinois and Kansas, but in a few years
  retired to Mount Gilead, Ohio, where he lived until his death, which occurred
  at the home of his son at New Castle, at the age of sixty-seven. He married
  Kate McCune, who died in Illinois at the age of sixty. Their children were as
  follows: John P., principal of the fifth ward school of New Castle; Hazen J.,
  a printer in Illinois; Herbert B., deceased; Ella B., who married S. B.
  Skinner, of Indiana; Kate, who married Mr. McCann, of Illinois; and Samuel
  M., the subject of this sketch.
  
  Samuel M. Hervey attended the North Sewickley Academy, and then began
  teaching school. For several years he taught at Hillsville, Lawrence county,
  Pa., where he met and married Annie E. Davis, a daughter of William Davis;
  they are the parents of three children, namely: Walter D.; Nellie; and Kate.
  Subsequently Mr. Hervey taught school in New Castle, and then engaged in
  painting. In 1886 he moved to Rochester, continued teaching, and carried on
  painting by contract. He also taught night school in Rochester until 1893. In
  1894 he formed a partnership with J. T. Conlin in the insurance business. They
  are today the most extensive insurance agents in the county, and represent the
  Royal, Lancaster, American, Fire of Philadelphia, Providence, Caledonia,
  Northwestern, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Mechanics, Netherlands, Springfield, Fire &
  
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  Marine, and other insurance companies. In February, 1893, Mr. Hervey was
  elected justice of the peace, and has been re-elected; he was appointed
  burgess by the court in March, 1898. In politics he is a stanch Republican.
  He has served as trustee and auditor of the Baptist church for the past three
  years, and is secretary of the Sunday School. He is a member of the I. O. O.
  F., Royal Arcanum, and B. P. O. E. In 1891 he built a fine residence on New
  York street, which reflects much credit on the taste; of its owner. His
  office is also on New York street.