Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Berkhimer, Charles May 3, 1859 - 
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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

  CHARLES BERKHIMER, son of Jacob and Tacy Weber (Deaves) 
Berkhimer, was born at Fairview, the old homestead of the 
Weber family, at Sandy Hill, in Whitpain township, May 3, 
1859. He attended school at Sandy Hill until his seventeenth 
year, besides assisting his father on the farm during the 
intervals of school study. After the death of his parents he 
became owner of the farm, which takes its name from the 
elevated position of the land from which the surrounding 
country may be seen in every direction for many miles. Few 
places in Montgomery county offer better facilities in the 
way of scenery than may be enjoyed from the door of the old 
stone mansion of Fairview Farm.

 Charles Berkhimer is unmarried and the presiding genius in 
his household is his widowed sister, Mrs. Rex, who with her 
son, assists in the management of the farm.

  Jacob Berkhimer (father), born January 6, 1809, married 
November 25, 1841, Tacy Weber Deaves, born June 23, 1814. 
Their children are Susanna Deaves, born September 27, 1842, 
married June 3, 1869, Nicholas Rex, born July 25, 1842, son 
of William and Mary Ann Rex, of Plymouth township, their 
children being Jacob and Mary Ann (died in infancy); and 
William Berkhimer, born September 24, 1882, residing at 
"Fairview Farm," with his mother and uncle, his father, 
Nicholas Rex, having died June 25, 1883.

  George E., second child of Jacob Berkhimer, born January 
13, 1845, died July 3, 1845. John, born April 18, 1846, 
married Susanna Rex (first wife), whose daughters Tacy B., 
born June 22, 1868, and Mary Ann, born January 2, 1874, 
reside with their father at the Maples in Whitpain township.

  Susanna Berkhimer having died December 10, 1877, John 
Berkhimer married (second wife) Mrs. Josephine (Hallman) 
Rapine, widow of Jerome Rapine, of Whitemarsh township, by 
whom she had two children. William Deaves, born May 22, 
1848, married Margaret, daughter of Joel Dewees, of Whitpain 
township, they living on the Township Line road near Blue 
Bell. Isaac, born in 1848, died in infancy. Mary Elizabeth, 
born in 1850, and died in infancy. Jesse Deaves, born 
October 5, 1852, married Sarah, daughter of William Moore, 
and she having died, married (second wife) Emily, daughter 
of Samuel and Sarah Fisher, they residing at West Ambler. 
Jacob Martin, born on Christmas day, 1854, married Sarah J. 
Thomas, of Harmanville, where they live. Charles is the 
other member of the family.

  Mr. Berkhimer's grandfather, George Berkhimer, was born in 
1773. He was the son of George Berkhimer, born in 1750.

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