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From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
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.
'christian E. Berg is also interested as a stockholder in the Farmers'
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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