BIOGRAPHIES: Peter BERGMAN, Prairie Farm Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 2 December 2000 ==================================================================== Peter Bergman, a substantial farmer of section 3, Prairie Farm Township, was born in Sweden, Aug. 31, 1860, and there attended school and grew to young manhood. In 1887 he came to America, landed in New York, and then came by railroad to Minneapolis, Minn., which city he reached Aug. 27, 1887. There for ten summers he did general labor, spending his winters in the lumbering woods of this region. In 1898 he purchased his present place of a little more than 75 acres, in section 3, Prairie Farm. It was a dismal stretch indeed when he bought it. No buildings had been erected and it was a wild tangle of brush, stumps and windfalls, with a dead tree standing here and there. From such a beginning he has developed his present farm, and great is the contrast that has been brought about in the less than quarter century since he purchased it. It is now well tilled, well cultivated, well cared for and well fenced. The home is comfortable and pleasant, the barn is commodious, the other buildings adequate. The equipment in tools, implements and machinery is excellent. Mr. Bergman successfully carries on general farming and dairying. He has a good herd, principally of Holstein blood, and a good drove of swine. He takes especial pride in his horses. He has a pair of dapple grays that are known for miles around. This high spirited team, with their well-kept equipment, present a picture of strength and beauty, rare indeed in these days of machinery, and are an evidence of their owner's good judgment, good taste, and good care. Mr. Bergman is respected by all who know him, and his standing is above reproach. He is doing his duty as a good citizen in every respect and is walking justly before Heaven and before man. Mr. Bergman was married at Minneapolis on Sept. 3, 1893, to Mary Samuelson, who was born in Sweden on Jan. 24, 1873, the daughter of Samuel and Johannah Johnson. This union has been blessed with four fine children: Bertha, Fred, Ernest and Esther. The family faith is that of the M. E. Church at Poskin. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 629-630.