The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-14

bert, then but three months old, an
went to the war. He died at JeffeT-
son Barracks, where he is buried. At
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hhht
the last reunion of the Third regiment
in 1895, Albert Berg was made an hon.
Orary member Of the association, an
honor he esteems greater than that Of
membership in any of the other nu-
merous societies to which he belongs.
Secretary Berg was born of Swedish
parents, June 25, 1861, at Center CITY.
Mimi, and is now thirty-five years old.
his parents were among the early
swedish settlers, coming here in 1852.
Leaving the common schools, he spent
the years 1867 at Carleton college.
Northtield, and then studied for three
years at the Gustavus Adolphus col
lege at st. Peter. During the next
four years he was employed by Mai.
Edwards Oh the Fargo Argus, doing
political work in the Northwestern
states. In 1886 he was elected regis
ter of deeds for Chisago county, and
was reelected in 18SS-89, serving for
eight years. An expert in official work.
ana possessing remarkably retentive
memory, he could give without refer
ence to the records an abstract Of
nearly all the land titles in his county.
rms experience ripened him for the
duties OF secretary of state, which he
has so ably performed
In 1892 he was delegate from this
state to the national Republican con-
ventlOn. and the same year he was a
formidable candidate for the position
which came to him two years later.
The best work Of Mr.. Berg during his
present term of office was the state
census of June ], 1895. With an appro-
priatiOn far too limited, he succeeded
in giving the state the best, most com
plete and comprehensive census yet
produced, and which has attracted
favorable comment at home and
abroad. Mr.. Eerg is a member of the
Lutheran church, belongs to the fra
ternity Of Masons, Elks. knights of
Pythias, and other societies; and not
thesleast of his talents is comprised in
vocal music, for which he has a mag
nificent voice, highly-cultured and no
religious, social or political gathering
at which Albert Berg is present is
complete in entertainment until his
mastery vocalization has been heard.
Page Morris.
Page Morris was born at Lynchburg,
Va, June so, 1858, and received his
early education at a private country
boarding school kept by his uncle.
Charles Morris, M. A, who afterwards
became professor of Greek in the Uni
versity of Georgia. His college educa-
ton consisted of a year at William and
Mary college, after which he entered
the Virginia Military Institute at Lex
q in r.
ed the regular four-years' course,
graduating as First Honor man in his
class, July 4, 1872. He won the debat-
ing society medal that year.
After graduating he became assist
stitute for one year.
In the fall of 1873, when only twenty
years of age, he accepted the chair of
Mathematics and Tactics in the Mill
tary Institute of Texas. He also served
three years as professor Of mathemat-
les at the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Bryan, Texas. During all
this time he read law more or less, and
spent two vacations in the Office of a
prominent attorney in Austin, Texas.
He resigned his position at the col
lege and passed an examination and
was admitted to the bar at st. Louis,
NO.; but not liking the place, he went
back to Virginia, practiced law there,
and took some interest in politics.
Politically Page Morris was a Demo-
crat until he was twenty nine years Of
age. Then he became convinced that
the protective policy was the right one
for Virginians.
To advocate the Republican policy Of
in in
meant to make man decidedly unpOp-
ular, if not something worse. 1t
meant that he must constantly be a
fighting Republican to hold his own.
In the congressional campaign Of
1882 he took the stump to advocate the
election of John 8. Wise as congress
man at large, and in 1884 was nomin-
ated for congressman in the Sixth dis
trict, and made a splendid showing
against Hon. John Daniel, now United
States senator from Virginia, in
hopelessly-DemocraticN, district; this
was done with the view OF making a
united front, and, if possible, to carry
the electoral vote for Blaine.
He came to Duluth in December,
1886, and was not long in gaining mer-
tied prominence, both as citizen and
as a lawyer of ability.
In March, 1889, he was elected mu-
nicipal judge, and served until March,
1892. March, 1894 he was elected city.
attorney, and served until Sept. 1, 55,
when Gov. Clough appointed him to
the district bench, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Judge
Lewis.
1t was while Judge Morris was city
attorney that some of the most i'm
portant street-assessment litigation in
the history of Duluth came up, under
tie new charter Of 1887. 1t involved
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
was carried by him to a successful ter
mination in the supreme court.
In the fall of 'SS he stumped the leg
islative district for Col. Graves, and IN
each succeeding campaign has been
active except in the years that he has
haon on fha honch