The Berg Families of Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Born in Norway, February 10, 180. Carl Berg, who, with his brother. Martin, owns two hundred and forty acres of land in Everts township, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, and who with his mother, owns eighty acres of land in Everts township, is a well-known farmer and stockman.

Mr. Berg is a son of Anton ( '. and Anne ( Glende) Berg, both of whom were natives of Norway, the former of whom was born in [839, and the latter in 1845. They were married in Norway, and in the spring of 1880 settled in Otter Tail county, Minnesota, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres of land, also homesteading seventy-three acres. Mr. Berg's father died on the old homestead farm in 181)7. His mother, who is a devout member of the Lutheran church, is still living. Carl Berg is the second child in a family of ten children. The others, in the order of their birth, are as follow: Annete, Martin. Ole W., Anna. Inga, Emma, Sophia. Alfred and Karen, all of whom are living with the exception of the eldest born.

Educated in the public schools of Norway, which he attended until he was ten years of age, Mr. Berg came to Everts township, Otter Tail county. Minnesota, with his parents, and after coming tk. this county was a student in the public schools of his home township for a time. He is a well-known farmer and stockman of this community, and with his brother, Martin, has an interest in two hundred and forty acres of land, and with his mother an interest in eighty acres mure in Everts township.

In 1008 Carl Berg was married to Lina Larson, who was born in Xorman county, Minnesota, in [884, and who is a daughter of Lars Larson, a successful farmer of Everts township. Mr. and Mrs. Berg have no children. They are earnest and devout members of the Lutheran church, and take an active and interested part in the work of the church, and are prominent in social and civic affairs in the community where they live.

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OLE W. BERG.

( )le \Y. Berg, who is the owner of a fertile farm of eighty acres in Everts township, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, and an interest in the old homestead farm of his parents, is a native of Norway, where his birth occurred on April 30, 1874.

Mr. Berg is a son of Anton C. and Anne (Glende) Berg, both of whom were natives of Norway. Mr. Berg's father was born in 1839 and his mother in 1845. They were married in Norway, and in the spring of 1880, came with their family to America, settling in Otter Tail county, where they purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, and also homesteaded seventy-three acres. From the time of his coming to Otter Tail county, until his death in 1807, Anton C. Berg made many and substantial improvements upon the homestead farm, and his widow is now living on this farm. She is an earnest and faithful member of the Lutheran church, as were all the family. Anton Berg and wife were the parents of ten children, all of whom are living with the exception of Annette, the eldest. The living children are as follow: Carl, Martin, Ole W., Anna, Inga, Emma, Sophia, Alfred and Karen.

Of these children. Ole \Y., the fourth in order of birth, was reared on the farm in Everts township, receiving his education in the public schools (25b) of the township. Mr. Berg has always been engaged in farming. He is a general farmer and stockman and has been very successful in his chosen calling. Like the other members of the family, he is a member of the Lutheran church. He has been a member of the township school board for the past three years, and has always been more or less prominent in local politics.

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CHRISTIAN E. BERG.

Among the men of success in business pursuits at Vining, Otter Tail county, is Christian E. Berg, who as a merchant of hardware and furniture has brought to the community its only convenience in this line, and who as a citizen in private life and as the occupant of public office has taken no minor part in the advancement and progress of the various activities of the locality.

( christian E. Berg was born in Norway twenty miles north of the city of Trondhjem, the son of Olaus and Rebecca I 'erg. who were born at Trondhjem, and later were married in the same locality, Olaus Berg was a farmer who owned extensive land interests in Norway where he lived until about the year 1889 when, with his wife, he came to America and settled in Everts township, northeast of Battle Lake, in Otter Tail county, where he died. His wife. Rebecca Berg, moved to the town of Vining, where she died some time later. Olaus and Rebecca Berg were members and active workers in the United Lutheran church. To the marriage of Olaus and Rebecca Berg were burn the following children: Christian E., the subject of this sketch; Martha, who married Hans P. Berg, a merchant of Vining, Minnesota: and Kari, who married Martin ECnutson and lives northeast of Battle Lake.

( christian E. Berg was educated in the public school in Norway, from which he was graduated and then studied for two years in a college of his native land. In 1887 he came to America and located at Battle Lake. Minnesota, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Everts township and there lived for about twenty years, after which he came to the town of Vining and was employed in a hardware store until the year 1906. when he established himself in the hardware and furniture business, in which he has since been engaged, being the only merchant of the town carrying a like stock.

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HANS P. BERG.

Of the citizens of Vining engaged in business, Hans P. Berg is one of the best known. A man who has taken an active interest in the development of the county and the promotion and advancement of the town of his residence, he is among those men who for their part in community affairs are given a conspicuous rank in the roll of citizenship of Otter Tail county.

Hans P. Berg was born in Trondhjem, Norway, July 13, 1849, the son of Haldor Haldorson and Guriana Ivorson, who were born at the same place, the father in the year 1822 and the mother in the year 1819. Haldor Haldorson was a shoemaker in his native land, a trade which he followed for some time and then engaged in the business of a contractor and builder until his death in 1894, he and his wife being drowned in a flood which overswept their small farm in that year. To Haldor Haldorson and Guriana Ivorson were born two children: Hans P., the subject of this sketch, and Gunirius H., who was a merchant at Surrey, North Dakota, where he died during the winter of 1915, his remains being brought to Vining, Minnesota, in February 22, for interment.

Hans P. Berg was educated in a public school which moved from farm to farm, in Norway, stopping for two days in each week where students were brought together. After his school days Hans P. Berg worked for a time on a farm, and in 1871 went to the city of I trondhjem, where lie learned the trade of a horse-shoes and blacksmith, later following his trade for sewn years with the cavalry of Norway, and then after a short time he came to America, in 1881, and located at the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where for the next two months he was employed at a saw-mill. Later Hans P. Berk went to Underwood where he took a position with the Kellogg Chair Company, where he remained for one and one-half years and then came to the town of Vining and established a. blacksmith shop which he conducted for about five years. He then went to the Pacific coal ami located in British Columbia and then in the state of Washington, later returning to ( i;ter Tail county and settling on a farm of eighty acres which he had hometeaded in the year [883. Mr. Berk lived on his farm for about two years and then became a wheat buyer for tinfanner-' Elevator Company, a business which lie followed for sixteen years. In [895 I Ian- P. Berg entered into partnership with the linn of Nyhus & Berg, a business in which Mr.

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OLE A. BERG.

Ole A. Berg is a native of Norway, born on September 5, t86o. Mr. Berg is a son of Arne Christensen Berg and Marie Olson Hoi, both of whom were born, reared, married, and died in Norway.

Ole A. Berg, after emigrating from Norway to the United Statein [886 settled near Battle Lake, in Otter Tail county. Minnesota.

In [890 Ole A. Berg was married to Carolina Vidness, who was born in Norway in 1875, and who is a daughter of Johannes Vidness and wife. Mrs. Berg's parents emigrated from their native land to America about r88o locating near Battle Lake. Minnesota, where they still live.

In 1902 Mr. Berg purchased the farm in Sverdrup township where they now live.

Mr and Mrs. Berg are the parents of ten children, as follow: Josephine. Mabel, Karen. Christian, Florence, Johannes, Arne (deceased), Arne, Else and Laura.

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