KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Garrard Co.

HON. WILLIAM BERKELE was born January 1, 1826, in Hesse Darmstadt, removed
with his parents to the United States in 1838, located at New Haven, Conn.,
where he grew to manhood, and in March, 1865, settled at Bryantsville,
Garrard County, Ky., where he has since resided.  In 1862 he was appointed
sutler of the Eleventh Connecticut Regiment while in North Carolina; came
west with Gen. Burnside in 1863 as sutler at headquarters, and in the
spring of the same year was appointed post sutler at Camp Nelson, where he
remained until the close of the war.  His father, Michael Berkele, was born
October 23, 1795, and died at New Haven February 27, 1863.  He married
Loisa Wilhelmina Rushstein (born March 14, 1796), and from their union
sprang Barbara (Shumaker), Josephine (Klose), William, Mary (Mairer),
Margaret (Heinz), Louis H., Charles, John and Henry.  William Berkele first
married Rebecca, daughter of Albert Alling of Orange, Conn., and to them
were born Louisa, Nettie M. (Jean) and William A.  In 1867 he married Mrs.
Mary Campbell, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Mullins, of Garrard County, Ky.
(born September 22, 1838), and their union has been favored by the birth of
Daisey and Eugene (twins).  In youth Mr. Berkele learned the tailor's
trade, which business he followed until the commencement of the war.  Since
the war he has been engaged in the mercantile business, two years at
Nicholasville and ten years at Bryantsville with success.  In 1883 he
erected a new distillery on the Lexington and Danville pike, at Rocky
Springs, three miles from Danville in Boyle County.  Since 1868 he has been
successfully engaged in distilling in Garrard and Boyle Counties,
manufacturing the old style, hand-made sour mash whiskies, known as the
Berkele and E.H. Chase & co. brands.  He is also a farmer, having 325 acres
of well improved land, upon which he grazes cattle and sheep, stall feeding
about 100 head annually.  Mr. Berkele has served two terms in the
Legislature of Kentucky; has been four times elected magistrate and a
member of the court of claims of Garrard County; was a delegate in 1872 to
the National Republican Convention and an alternate in 1880.  He is a
commissioner of the Deaf and Dumb Institution of the State and treasurer of
the Danville, Lancaster and Nicholasville Turnpike.  He is a Knight Templar
and in politics is a Republican.

Berkele Burnside Rushstein Shumaker Klose Mairer Heinz Alling Jean
Campbell Mullins Chase
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CT NC Boyle-KY

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