BIOS: Harvey M. BERKELEY, Summit Township, Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Roth Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 25/6 Harvey M. BERKELEY. Harvey M. Berkeley, an attorney and cashier of the Somerset (Pennsylvania) First National Bank, was born in Summit township (Meyersdale P.O.), Somerset county, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1860. He is the son of Peter and Sally (Meyers) Berkeley. The father was born in the same place as the son, in 1832, and the mother at Berlin, Pennsylvania, in 1836. She was the daughter of Samuel Meyers, a well-known agriculturist of that community. In religious faith and profession, Peter Berkeley belonged to the Brethren church. Politically he was a Republican. His education was of the common school order, primarily, and later he attended the local normal schools. He became a minister in the Brethren denomination and passed from earth in 1865, when Harvey M., his son, was but about five years of age. Harvey M. Berkeley attended the common schools and local normals and subsequently graduated from Juniata College of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1881; from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1885, having conferred upon him the degrees of M. E. and Ph. B. He taught Latin and Philosophy at Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, Pennsylvania, in 1886-87; registered as a law student with Rodney A. Mercur, Esq., son of the late Chief Justice Mercur of the Pennsylvania supreme court, June, 1886, and was admitted to the Bradford county (Pennsylvania) bar in September, 1888. In May, 1899, he was admitted to practice in Somerset county, and has been in practice ever since. In 1892, on the solicitation of interested parties, he became cashier of the First National Bank of Somerset, Pennsylvania, which position he resigned in June, 1906, and since that time has devoted his entire attention to the practice of law and business enterprises, in which he is engaged with associates. He later became one of the directors of this bank, as well as of the First National Bank of Confluence, Pennsylvania. For many years he has been director and the treasurer of the Somerset Telephone Company, also connected with a number of coal companies. His political affiliations have been with the Republican party. He was the chairman of the Republican county committee from 1896-1900; nominated for congress at the Republican primaries in 1900, but the district nomination was finally conceded to Hon. Alvin Evans, of Ebensburg. He is now in active business as lawyer and banker. Mr. Berkeley is a member of the Brethren church at Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1889, he was united in marriage to M. Emma Beachley, of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Urias M. Beachley, a distinguished medical practitioner. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley.