Biographical Sketches:  OVE H. BERG


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. The Wisconsin
Legislature. Assembly, p. 1139

HERMAN L. KERN, Speaker; C. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S. IRVINE,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their services during their term. The speaker is
chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services
as speaker. The assembly of 1907 contains 76 republicans, 19
democrats, and 5 social democrats.

Ashland County. (p. 1139) One District. Population, 1900 - 20,176.

OVE H. BERG (Rep.) was born in Schlesvig-Hostein, Germany, Dec. 20,
1840, where he received a good common school education. After his
thirty-second year he held several responsible positions, one of which
he hfilled for nine successive years from 1872 to 1881 when he
emigrated with his family to America and in 1883 finally settled in
Ashland, Wis. Here he conducted a meat-market and grocery store in
company with his son, M. H. Berg, who now conducts the business alone,
O. H. Berg having withdrawn in 1892. In political affairs he has
always been a staunch and active republican; has been a member of the
republican county committee for twenty-two years and a member of the
republican city committee of which he has also served as chairman. At
present he is a member of the board of education on which he has
served for two terms. He received the nomination for member of the
assembly in 1906, and at the general election received 1,796 votes
against 733 for Albert F. Fox (Dem.) and 226 votes for Jno. F. Miles
(Soc. Dem.).