Bio: Berg, Antoin (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 204.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTIOIN BERG

ANTOIN BERG, contractor of lath-mill, Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company, Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin in 1868; located at Lafayette, Chippewa Co., and was employed in a saw-mill there four years, then went to Badger's Mill, Wis., running lath mill for six years; came to Chippewa Falls in 1880, and engaged in present business. Mill cuts from 110,000 to 120,000 lath per day of twenty-two hours. Is also contractor of picket-mill of C. L. & B. Co., which has a daily capacity of 2,000 to 3,000 pickets. He employs twenty-seven men in both mills. Was born in Norway, Aug. 18, 1842; married there, Sept. 5, 1869, to Margurite Olsen, a native of that country, who died at Chippewa Falls, May 12, 1880. Has three living children—Henry, Antoin and Ovidee, and two deceased.

 

 


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