BIOGRAPHIES: Carl John ENG, Cameron, 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: Transcribed by Peg Lamkin Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 8 April 2002 ==================================================================== Carl John Eng, overseer of the stations of the potato buyers for J. R. Beggs, of St. Paul, was born in Norway, Aug. 5, 1877, son of Christ and Mary (Christenson) Eng, who came to America in 1881 and located at Cameron, in this county, where they lived for a year before moving onto a farm. Then they successfully carried on agricultural operations. The father died in 1913 and the mother is still living on the home place. In the Eng family there were nine children, of whom seven are now living: Anton, foreman in a lumber camp at Montesano, Wash.; Carl J., subject of this sketch; Marie, who is employed in the Journal office at Minneapolis; Hannah, wife of Horace Anderson, residing on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada; Alga, wife of Sheldon Sweeny, living on a farm in Stanley Township; Mabel, now Mrs. Oliver Wollum, residing at Cameron; Arthur, potato buyer at Barron for Beggs & Co.; and Casper and Matthew, who are deceased. Carl John Eng received his early education in the district schools, remaining in school until he was sixteen and completing the usual grammar school studies, since which time he has acquired broad information by close observation and much reading. He farmed for some years and then became interested in the potato business, in which line, with the exception of two years, when he was in the restaurant business at Cameron, he has since remained. Mr. Eng was married at Barron, Nov. 30, 1916, to Vera Johnson, daughter of J. H. and Justine Johnson, who came to this country from Norway in 1860. In the Johnson family there were six children: Arthur, who is state highway commissioner at Barron; Cecil, engaged in railroad work at Eau Claire; Esther, employed in the Almena State Bank at Almena, Wis.; Goldie, who is assisting her mother at home, and Natalie, who is attending school at Barron. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1922, pp. 127-128.