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 988 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY Grove township. May 6, 1876. His father, O. T. Berg, was a native of Norway, and his mother, Carrie Flatland Berg, a native of "Wisconsin. The father came with his father to this country when a boy of ten years, after a long and perilous voyage, in which his mother, one sister and one brother died, and were buried at sea. The father and the surviving members of his family located in Cherry Grove township, where they worked at various labor, until 1869, when he purchased 120 acres of im- proved land and engaged in farming. Here he built a home, barn and other outbuildings, and carried on general and diversi- fied farming, and which he still manages. Andrew 0. Berg re- ceived his education in the common school of Cherry Grove, and took ;i preparatory course a1 St. Olof's College at Northfield, completing with a course at a .Minneapolis business college in 1899. Alter completing his studies, he entered the First State Bank of Zumbrota, holding the position of clerk until May, 1904. He then took the management of the hardware, wagon and farm implement store of Myron & Olson, at Wanamingo, which he still conducts. February 21, 1906, he was married to Mary Shay, daughter of Nicolai Shay, native of Norway, and came to America, locating in Belle ('reek-, and took up fanning. The mother died in 1889 and the father was married again. Mr. and Mrs. Berg have one child, Oswald Norman, born December 24, 1906. In his politics, Mr. Berg is Prohibition. Ee is a mem- ber of the Modern Samaritans, and was a member of Company D of Zumbrota for one year. He and his family attend Land's Norwegian church. Michael J. Barry, who owns ami operates 120 acres of land in Belle Creek township, was born in Wisconsin, October 22, 1850, to F. John and Ellen Murphy) Barry, natives of County Cork, Ireland. The father, a farmer, came to America in 1849, settling in Wisconsin, where he farmed eighty acres of land. Later he sold this and purchased one-half section in Belle Creek township, where he followed general farming until his death at Goodhue in December, 1892. The mother died in July, 1888. They had four children, besides Michael: Margaret, married to John Dewitt, a farmer living at Goodhue; Patrick, living in Ellsworth. Minn., engaged in dray business; James, living at Min- neapolis, engaged in express business; Hannah, living at home; and Ellen S., who died the summer of 1881. Michael received his education in the public school of Belle Creek. After leaving school he farmed with his father, from whom in 1874 he pur- chased 120 acres, on which he still does common farming, and also raises Perchon horses and Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Barry was married November 16, 1875, to Elizabeth Richards, daughter of George and Yandenah (Wentink) Richards, natives of New