BIOS: Harvey M. BERKELEY, Summit Township, Somerset County, PA

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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.