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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  DR. DAVID HENDRICKS BERGEY is the son of Godshalk Reiff 
and Susan D. (Hendricks) Bergey. He was educated in the 
public schools of Lower Salford township, at West Chester 
State Normal School and at Ursinus College. He taught public 
schools for two years, and in 1881 commenced the study of 
medicine with Dr. Samuel Wolfe, of Skippack. He entered the 
medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, 
October 1, 1881, graduating with the degree of M. D., May 1, 
1884, and also received the degree of B. S. from the 
University June 13, 1884. He received the degree of A. M. 
from the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1894 for 
non-resident work in science and. philosophy. Dr. Bergey 
engaged in the practice of medicine at North Wales, 
Pennsylvania, from June, 1884, to November, 1893. In the 
fall of 1893 he entered the Laboratory of Hygiene of the 
University, of Pennsylvania as a special research student, 
and was appointed Scott Fellow in Hygiene, 1894-95; 
Instructor in Hygiene, 1895- 96: First Assistant in Hygiene, 
1896-1903: Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, 1903. He is 
the author of the following text books: "A Handbook of 
Practical Hygiene," 1899: "THe Principles of Hygiene," 1901. 
Dr. Bergey married June 5, 1884, at Skippack, Pennsylvania, 
Annie S., daughter of Joseph F. and Catherine (Stauffer) 
Hallman, of Skippack township, Montgomery county.
  Joseph Hallman is a farmer by occupation. He is the son of 
Joseph and Margaret (Fry) Hallman and a descendant of 
Anthony Hallman, of Skippack township, who was one of the 
building committee of the Old Trappe Lutheran church in 
1743. Margaret Fry (grandmother of Mrs. Bergey) was a 
descendant of Henry and Catherine (Levering) Fry, who came 
to America in 1680.
  Dr. David H. Bergey is a Republican in politics. He held 
the office of school director in North Wales for three 
years, and served as secretary of the board of health of 
North Wales from its first organization until 1893. Dr. 
Bergey stands very high in his profession for so young a 
man, being but little past forty years of age. He has 
achieved a high rank among the medical practitioners of 
Philade1phia and of the country. He is a member of the 
following organizations: Montgomery County Medical Society, 
Pennsylvania Medical Society, American Medical Association, 
Society of American Bacteriologists, American Association of 
Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Climatological 
Association, American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, National Educational Association, University of 
Pennsylvania Chapter Sigma Xi.
  Godshalk Reiff Bergey (father) was born in Lower Salford 
township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1833. 
He was educated in the public schools of the township, and 
at Washington Hall Collegiate Institute at Trappe, 
Pennsylvania. He taught in the public schools of Ilerks and 
Montgomery counties and later engaged in the occupation of 
farming which he followed in Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, up to 1901. He now lives retired in 
Philadelphia. He is a Republican in politics, and served as 
a member of the school board of Lower Salford township for a 
number of years. In religious faith he is a member of the 
Mennonite church. He married, January 13, 1856, Susan D. 
Hendricks, daughter of John H. and Mary (Detweiler) 
Hendricks, (both deceased), of Skippack township.
  The ceremony was performed by Rev. Henry G. Johnson of 
Skippack. John H. Hendricks (father of Mrs. Bergey) was the 
son of Henry and Barbara (Hendricks) Hendricks, of 
Towamencin township. Mary Detweiler was the daughter of 
Joseph and Susanna (Shoemaker) Detweiler and granddaughter 
of Jacob and Maria (Funk) Detweiler, great-granddaughter of 
John Funk, and great-great-granddaughter of Bishop Henry 
Funk, of Lower Salford township. Godshalk Reiff Bergey had 
by his union in marriage born to him the following children 
1. Nelson H., born January 3, 1857; he married, October 25, 
1879, Mary Moyer, and has children L. Arthur, Sallie M., 
Susan M., Katie M., Nelson and Raymond D. 2. Dr. David H., 
of this review, 3. Elizabeth H., born August 9, 1862; she 
married John C. Kaiser, June 11, 1881, and has children 
Harry G., Lizzie Irene, Susan May, who married Harry 
Gottshalk, September 2, 1903; Ida Myrtle is the next in 
order of birth; Barbara Ella and Bertha Alvilda, who is 
deceased. The mother of these children, Elizabeth (Bergey) 
Kaiser, died April 8, 1890. 4. Sarah H., born December 4, 
1863; she married Nari Hunsicker, November 18, 1882, and had 
one child, Lovina B. Hunsicker. The mother died October 8, 
1883. 5. Mary H., born April 7, 1865, died January 21, 1860. 
6. Irwin H., born March 31, 1869; he married, February 20, 
1892, Mary Kepler; no issue.
  The Bergeys are one of the oldest families of German 
descent in Montgomery county. John Ulrich Bergey, the 
founder of the family in this country, emigrated to America 
about the year 1717, presumably from Saxony, and located in 
Salford township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he 
purchased a farm of 250 acres from Hugh Roberts, March 16, 
1726. In 1760 he served as road supervisor of Salford 
township. At the organization of the congregation of the 
Salford Mennonite church, in 1738, John Ulrich Bergey was 
one of the charter members. His wife was Anna Mary Bergey. 
The ancestors of Dr. David H. Bergey in direct line of 
descent are as follows, the list being confined to those 
living in America: 1. John Ulrich Bergey, founder of the 
family: 2. John Bergey, whose wife was Anna Bergey; John 
Bergey was a miller in Upper Salford township; 3. Jacob 
Bergey, married Elizabeth Godshalk. Jacob Bergey was a 
farmer and weaver by occupation, and resided in Lower 
Salford township; 4. Rev. David Bergey, married (first wife) 
Elizabeth (Reiff) Kolb; second wife Annie (Burgstresser) 
Kreamer. He was a farmer by occupation; he was a minister in 
the Mennonite church, residing in Lower Salford; 5. Godshalk 
R. Bergey, married Susan D. Hendricks. He was a farmer by 
occupation but now resides in Philadelphia; 6. Dr. David H. 
Bergey.
  Among other prominent ancestors of Dr. David H. Bergey may 
be mentioned the following: Jacob Reiff, the elder, of Lower 
Salford township; Valentine Hunsicker, of Lower Salford; 
Dillman Kolb, Peter Schumacher, and Isaac Von Sintern, of 
Germantown; Jan de Voss, burgomaster in Hansbooten, in 
Flanders, about 1550; Gerhart Clemens, of Lower Salford; 
Leonard Hendricks, and Rev. Jacob Gaettschalk, of 
Towamencin; Christian Moyer of Lower Salford, and Jacob 
Shoemaker of the same township. Among prominent ancestors of 
Annie S. Hallman (wife of Dr. Bergey) are the following: 
Christian Stauffer, of Lower Salford; Dillman Kolb, Isaac 
Van Sinterm and Jacob Schumacher, of Germantown; Jacob 
Grater, of Skippack, and Valentine Hunsicker, of Lower 
Salford.


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