Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Bertrand, J. P. Edward 1876 - 
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J. P. EDWARD BERTRAND.

    Among Cobden's efficient officials the name of J. P. Edward Bertrand must be
included, for those acquainted with his work say it has always been well and
faithfully done. He was born in the township of Home, Minnesota, December 11,
1876, and has been content to spend most of his life in Brown county. He is a
son of Dominic and Mary (Huffman) Bertrand, both natives of Luxemburg, Germany.
The former came to this country as a young man, settling in Dakota county,
Minnesota, removing to Brown county in 1865, homesteading one hundred and sixty
acres in Home township, developing a good farm through hard work, and there he
continued to reside until his death in 1885. His family consisted of eight
children, namely: Jack, Paul, Kate, Matt, J. P. Edward, John, Frank and Anna.

    Mr. Bertrand grew to manhood in Home township, Brown county, working on the
farm during the crop seasons and attending the district schools in the winter
time, later was a student of the high school at Sleepy Eye, then spent one year
in the Mankato Normal, after which he taught school for five years in his native
county, then purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Redwood county,
where he lived two years, removing from there to Cobden where he entered the
livery, feed and dray business, also handled fuel, following this line of
endeavor for seven years, then sold the livery business and bought the Cobden
Mutual Telephone Company's business of which he is still proprietor. It consists
of about sixty telephones and about thirty miles of telephone lines. He is also
proprietor of the Cobden feed and grist-mill, which business he started in 1913.
He has been successful in all these enterprises.

     Mr. Bertrand was married in 1904 to Kate Miller, a daughter of J. P.
Miller, who was a native of Saxony and who was one of the pioneer settlers of
Brown county, Minnesota, coming here when young, and here he received his
education. He had two children, a boy and a girl, the former dying in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand have six children, namely: Florence, Edward, Roman,
Rosella, Elnora and Clarence.

     Mr. Bertrand is an independent voter. He is now recorder of Cobden, He has
held all the town offices but that of mayor. He is a Catholic and belongs to the
Knights of Columbus, at New Ulm, and St. John's Society at Sleepy Eye.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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