Frederick Norton Berkey died at his home in Salem, Indiana April 9 last, aged eighty-four years.
He obtained his early education at the Washington County Seminary, conducted by John L. Morrison (professor of languages at Indiana University from 1840 - 43 and a Trustee from 1846 - 55), and was well-grounded in Latin, Greek, and the higher mathematics when, in 1851, he entered Indiana University. Mr. Berkey was compelled to leave the University after attending two terms, owing to the illness of his father.
Mr. Berkey was, at the time of his death, the oldest retail merchant in the United States in point of service, having been actively engaged in business at the same stand for seventy-two years. He was predeceased by his wife, Josephine Gordon Berkey. Five sons and three daughters survive him: William, Ella, Edwin, Fred, Robert, Mary, Roscoe, and Ethel. Mr. Berkey was the grandfather of Mrs. Laura I. Berkey Zenk, an '07 graduate of the University.
A fellow townsman and Indiana University alumnus, Walter H. Crim, said of Mr. Berkey, "The remarkable thing to me was his ever-present interest in the State University and the affairs of higher education, although his prime interest for over half a century had been merchandising."
(From the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, Volume 4, 1917, p.451...minimal editing.)
He obtained his early education at the Washington County Seminary, conducted by John L. Morrison (professor of languages at Indiana University from 1840 - 43 and a Trustee from 1846 - 55), and was well-grounded in Latin, Greek, and the higher mathematics when, in 1851, he entered Indiana University. Mr. Berkey was compelled to leave the University after attending two terms, owing to the illness of his father.
Mr. Berkey was, at the time of his death, the oldest retail merchant in the United States in point of service, having been actively engaged in business at the same stand for seventy-two years. He was predeceased by his wife, Josephine Gordon Berkey. Five sons and three daughters survive him: William, Ella, Edwin, Fred, Robert, Mary, Roscoe, and Ethel. Mr. Berkey was the grandfather of Mrs. Laura I. Berkey Zenk, an '07 graduate of the University.
A fellow townsman and Indiana University alumnus, Walter H. Crim, said of Mr. Berkey, "The remarkable thing to me was his ever-present interest in the State University and the affairs of higher education, although his prime interest for over half a century had been merchandising."
(From the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, Volume 4, 1917, p.451...minimal editing.)
Frederick Norton Berkey died at his home in Salem, Indiana April 9 last, aged eighty-four years.
He obtained his early education at the Washington County Seminary, conducted by John L. Morrison (professor of languages at Indiana University from 1840 - 43 and a Trustee from 1846 - 55), and was well-grounded in Latin, Greek, and the higher mathematics when, in 1851, he entered Indiana University. Mr. Berkey was compelled to leave the University after attending two terms, owing to the illness of his father.
Mr. Berkey was, at the time of his death, the oldest retail merchant in the United States in point of service, having been actively engaged in business at the same stand for seventy-two years. He was predeceased by his wife, Josephine Gordon Berkey. Five sons and three daughters survive him: William, Ella, Edwin, Fred, Robert, Mary, Roscoe, and Ethel. Mr. Berkey was the grandfather of Mrs. Laura I. Berkey Zenk, an '07 graduate of the University.
A fellow townsman and Indiana University alumnus, Walter H. Crim, said of Mr. Berkey, "The remarkable thing to me was his ever-present interest in the State University and the affairs of higher education, although his prime interest for over half a century had been merchandising."
(From the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, Volume 4, 1917, p.451...minimal editing.)
He obtained his early education at the Washington County Seminary, conducted by John L. Morrison (professor of languages at Indiana University from 1840 - 43 and a Trustee from 1846 - 55), and was well-grounded in Latin, Greek, and the higher mathematics when, in 1851, he entered Indiana University. Mr. Berkey was compelled to leave the University after attending two terms, owing to the illness of his father.
Mr. Berkey was, at the time of his death, the oldest retail merchant in the United States in point of service, having been actively engaged in business at the same stand for seventy-two years. He was predeceased by his wife, Josephine Gordon Berkey. Five sons and three daughters survive him: William, Ella, Edwin, Fred, Robert, Mary, Roscoe, and Ethel. Mr. Berkey was the grandfather of Mrs. Laura I. Berkey Zenk, an '07 graduate of the University.
A fellow townsman and Indiana University alumnus, Walter H. Crim, said of Mr. Berkey, "The remarkable thing to me was his ever-present interest in the State University and the affairs of higher education, although his prime interest for over half a century had been merchandising."
(From the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, Volume 4, 1917, p.451...minimal editing.)
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