Biography of Eric P. Bergman, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Bergman, Seaman, 

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 351

Eric P. Bergman

Mr. Bergman is a native of Sweden, born February 21, 1867. He grew to early
manhood there, receiving a public school education, but when he arrived at the
age of nineteen years he emigrated to Seattle, Washington, and for a number of
years he wrought as a laborer in logging camps and on farms in the vicinity of
that city. He saved his money, contrary to the usual custom of men among that
class, and in 1888 engaged in a produce business in Seattle. A year later he
went to Sumner, Washington, and embarked in general merchandising, in which he
continued to employ his energies for a period of three days. He then sold out
and went to Portland. Here he was in grocery business continuously for eight
years, after which he removed to Sumpter, where we now find him. He is now
manager of the E. P. Bergman company, the leading grocers of the town, whose
place of business is on Mill street. They carry a stock valued at about
fifteen thousand dollars and are doing a large business and enjoying a very
profitable and rapidly extending trade.

Mr. Bergman also has some very good mining properties, among the number being
the Gypsy King, the Intermountain, the Buffalo and the St. Louis, and he owns
a nice residence on Auburn street. He is certainly to be congratulated on the
success with which he has climbed to his present exalted position in the
commercial world despite the many obstacles which beset his pathway when he
first arrived from Europe, without money, without influential friends, and
without even a knowledge of the language. His thriftiness and natural business
ability are to be credited in large measure to the decided change in his
standing and condition in life.

Fraternally our subject is affiliated with the Masons, the K of P., and the
Odd Fellows. His marriage was solemnized in Sumner, Washington, in April 1893,
Miss Nellie M. Seaman then becoming his wife, and their union has been blessed
by the advent of one child, Beth Edell.

Mrs. Bergman's father crossed the plains to California in 1849, and came
thence to the Sound before Tacoma was started, becoming one of the oldest
pioneers of the state of Washington.