Ludvig "Lewis" Christian Emil Pedersen Berg

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BERG, Lewis C. - WI 28th Inf Co K. Residence: Delafield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Born “Ludvig Christian Emil Berg” on 23 Aug 1838, at Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway, son of Peter Berg, a Kongsberg merchant, and Karen Sophie Stave. He came to America with his widowed mother and three siblings on “Lyna”, which sailed from Drammen, Buskerud, on 8 Jun 1849 and arrived in New York on 14 Aug 1849. They came to Delafield Township, Waukesha County. Civil War: Musician. Unmarried. Age 24. Hazel eyes, brown hair, dark complexion, 5’10”, stout build. Enlisted for three years on 21 Aug 1862 at Delafield. Mustered 14 Oct 1862 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Private. On 14 Oct 1864, he was transferred to the Regimental Band as a prime musician. Post war: He was married at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on 29 Oct 1865, to Ellen Lowth. Two children. He moved to Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota, where he became a moulder, and later an ornamenter and painter for a firm called Lowth & Howe. Sources: (WHS Series 1200 box 132-12,14; red book vol 33) (Naeseth-Hedberg ’49-2556)

Lewis C. Berg, of Owatonna, a veteran of the Civil War, was born in Norway, August 23, 1838, and there received his earlier education, coming to America with his mother in 1845. After attending the public schools of Wisconsin for a time, he learned the moulders' trade at Beaver Dam, in the same state, and was engaged in this business at the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-eight Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, as a musician and served three years, being discharged at Brownsville, Texas, and mustered out at Madison, Wis. For a short time Mr. Berg lived at Hartland, Wis., and in October, 1865, came to Owatonna, where he became a moulder for Lowth & Howe, Mr. Lowth having been his former employer in Wisconsin. He remained with this firm through various changes in ownership, and in 1888, when it was incorporated under the present title of the Owatonna Manufacturing Company, he became ornamenter and painter, which position he still holds. In politics Mr. Berg is a Republican. For eighteen years he served as a member of the Owatonna fire department. He is also an enthusiastic worker in the James A. Goodwin Post, G. A. R., being now a past commander. A public-spirited man in every respect, he has taken a deep interest in the welfare of the community in which for so long he has made his home. Mr. Berg was married October 29, 1865, at Beaver Dam. Wis., to Ellen Lowth, daughter of Edward and Mary (DufTy) Lowth, who took up a government claim in Wisconsin in the early day's and carried on general farming until their decease. Mrs. Berg was born in Pittsford, Vermont, July 9, 1842. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Berg is blessed with two children : Frank L., who is now a druggist in Minneapolis, and Alice M., who is now Mrs. Egbert Brown, of Owatonna. The family faith is that of the Episcopal Church. The residence is pleasantly located at 240 East Broadway. Charles and Karen S. Stave Berg, parents of Lewis C. Berg, were natives of Norway. The father died in 1840 and the mother came to America five years later with her five children, locating in Waukesha county, Wisconsin. She died in 1896 at the ripe old age of ninety-four.