The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12
DEATH OF ]. N. BERG.
Princeton Merchant Succumbs to an
Attack of Pneumonia Last
Monday Evening.
Body Taken to minneapolis Yesterday
and Placed in Vault at Lake.
wood Cemetery.

evening about SIX O'Clock. The an
nOuncement of his death came as
sudden shock to the community as he
had been about town on Saturday at
tending to business and was at his
store until closing up time Saturday
evening. He went home and COM
planned of not feeling very we'll, and
awakened in the morning in the dread
full grip of pneumonia which had fas-
tened itself upon him ere he realized
it. DR.. Cooney was summoned and
found Mr.. Berg in a very critical con-
dition. Everything was done that
medical skill could do to stop the
progress of the disease but the patient
continued to sink and passed away
at the time stated.
Relatives and friends were at once
notified and arrangements made for
the funeral. It was decided to take
the body to Minneapolis and have it
inferred in a lot in Lakewood cemetery
where the first wife of deceased is
buried.
Mr.. Berg was a member of Mime
apolis lodge No. 10, A. F. and A. M.
and representative of the Princeton
lodge was sent to Minneapolis to con-
fer with the officers of the lodge in
that city for funeral arrangements.
Short funeral services were held at
the house yesterday forenoon and were
attended by a delegation from the
Princeton lodge of Masons, the Ma
sonic service being read at the house
and Rev. John Russell Henderson de-
livered a prayer full of comfort and
consolation for the afflicted ones.
The body was taken to the depot with
Masonic escort and on arrival at Min
neapolis was met by delegation from
Minneapolis lodge No. 10 which took
charge of the remains and escorted
them to the cemetery where the boy
was place in the receiving vault to
await future interment
Many relatives from outside points
were present at the funeral, among
them Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. K. johnson.
father and mother of the wife of the
deceased. w. L. Johnson and Miss
Leaffie Johnson brother and sister of
Mrs. Berg, Lawrence Berg of Green
Lake, brother of deceased, and
others.
John Nelson Berg was born in
Trondhjem, Norway, Nov. 2, 1S49.
At the age of seventeen he came with
his parents to this country, locating
near Red Wing, Mimi, where the boy
worked asa farm hand for; several
years. At the age of twenty-one he
was married and started in the gro
Gerry business at Cedar. and Washing
ton avenues in the city of Minneapo-
lis He was in partnership for year
or SO with A. C. Haugen who AFTER
wards was city treausrer of Minneap-
oils and became prominent in State
politics. Mr.. Berg. was in the mer-
camille business in Minneapolis for
about ten years when he went to Ap-
pleton: MIMI, and was engaged in the
real estate business for ten or twelve
years, making small investments in
land which proved profitable as the
country began to develop. He went
back to Minneapolis and remained in
the real estate business for some time
and in 1895 came to Princeton and en-
gagged in the general mercantile bust
ness
Mr.. Berg owned property in the
village, besides farm land in this Sec
ton, and in the western part of the
State.
He leaves wife and six children,
two daughters, Mrs. g.. K. Evens and
Miss Rose Berg, and four sons, Jay,
Waldemar, Robert and John, the bows
being all under thirteen years of age.
He leaves a brother, Lawrence Berg,
who lives near Green lake, and two
sisters, Mrs. Louis Hanson of Excel
sior and Mrs. Ole Wig of Broten.
One sister, Mrs. Dora Hoiley, who
resided at Excelsior lis dead. Mr..
Bersg's father and mother are dead
but he has a stepmother residing in
Kandiyohi county.
Mr.. Berg's success in life only
shows the wide field this country af-1
fords for the poor humble immigrant
from foreign lands who come to this
country to get start in life. . When
his folks came over they were so
poor when they reached Chicago that
Mr.. Berg's father was obliged to bor-
row money from his sister to get his
family to Red Wing. In those DAYS
Minnesota was reached by steamboats,
on the Mississippi, and Mr.. Berg used
to tell his:friends of what privations