OBIT: Valentine HAY, LL D., 1916, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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Hay, Valentine

  Attorney Valentine Hay, LL D., of Somerset died this Thursday morning. Funeral 
will be held on Saturday at 2:00 p. m. Obituary in next issue.

Meyersdale Commercial, Mar. 23, 1916

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  Dr. Valentine Hay, aged 81 years, oldest member of the Somerset County Bar, 
former editor of the Somerset "Democrat," and one of the wealthiest men in 
Somerset County, died at his apartments in the Somerset House at 5:00 o'clock 
Thursday morning following a severe illness with a number of ailments he 
suffered during the past four or five years. Dr. Hay was born in Brothersvalley 
Township, October 17, 1834 and was the son of Peter and Elizabeth Walker Hay. 
His father died when he was ten years old. At the age of eighteen years, 
Valentine Hay began teaching school and in 1853 he attended a normal school in 
Berlin. One year later he entered Heidelberg College at Tiffin, O. from which he 
graduated in 1857 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1856, Mr. Hay entered 
the law office of William J. Baer and his brother Herman L. Baer in Somerset. He 
was admitted to the Somerset Bar April 23, 1858. On April 1865, Mr. Hay married 
Elizabeth A. Weimer, a daughter of Dr. John Weimer of Akron, O., who died 
several years ago. Dr. Hay is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Leora Nutt, of 
Cleveland, O., and two sisters, Mrs. Caroline Saylor, of Somerset Township, and 
Mrs. Smith Walker, of Allegheny Township. Mrs. Walker is 96 years old. In 1906 
Heidelberg University conferred on Attorney Hay the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Laws. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in charge of 
Dr. Hiram King and Rev. Edgar Hoffmeir of the Reformed Church.

Meyersdale Commercial, Mar. 30, 1916