CHRISTIAN BERGER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 676 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

CHRISTIAN BERGER, watchmaker; Town Clerk, Waterford; born in kingdom of
Wurtemberg, Germany, Feb. 1, 1843; son of Julius and Eliza Berger, who
came to America June 5, 1854. They settled at Green Bay, Wis.
Christian's mother died January, 1855; his father, Julius, died October,
1874. They had seven children; five came to America with them; two died
coming west from New York, and were buried at Kenosha. William C.
enlisted in November for our late war; was taken prisoner by the rebels
at Okolona, Ark.; died from the effects of a wound received at that
battle. Christian enlisted at Green Bay in the 9th Wis. V. I., Co. H,
under Capt. Gumal Hesse; was in two battles and many engagements; was
taken prisoner at the battle of Newtonia, Mo.; was discharged Dec. 3,
1864; came to Racine Co. Oct. 15, 1869; located at Waterford; was
elected Town Clerk, 1871; served four years; re-elected 1878; elected
Justice of the Peace in 1878; is an Odd Fellow, and a member of the
Lutheran Church.