Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Berlin, Samuel February 28, 1819 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

SAMUEL BERLIN,
for many years a prominent druggist of Tyrone, who retired from active
business in 1887, is a son of Joseph and Mary (Haneman) Berlin, and was born
February 28, 1819, at Abbottstown, Adams county, Pennsylvania.  He received
his limited education in the subscription schools of that village.  The
facilities for obtaining an education in that early day were very meagre.  On
the 10th of September, 1843, he united in marriage with Mary M. Shane, of
Littlestown, Adams county, this State.  The only fruit of this union was a
daughter, Virginia Josephine, who died in infancy.
     Mr. Berlin went to Littlestown, Adams county, in 1844, and engaged in
the drug business.  He successfully conducted this enterprise in Littlestown
for a period of ten years, and then disposed of his drug store at that place
and removed to Tyrone, this county, where he at once embarked in the same
line of business.  Always careful and accurate in his transactions, and
energetic and progressive in his business methods, he soon won the confidence
of the general public.
     In his party affiliations Mr. Berlin is a republican, and has always
upheld the cardinal principles of that political organization, believing that
therein lay the true basis of just government.  He was elected and served as a
member of the first council of the borough of Tyrone, and during the civil war
occupied the position of burgess of the town.  Office holding, however, was
not in his line, and he found far greater pleasure in strictly attending to
the business to which he had devoted his life.  He is now spending his
declining years in peace and plenty at his handsomely appointed home in
Tyrone, respected by his neighbors and many a friend who cherishes the memory
of the associations of by-gone days.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Donna Thomas.

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