Olmsted County MINNESOTA Biographies.....Andrew C. Bergan December 29 1862 - 
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Mike Oiseth MOISETH@mn.rr.com March 10, 2005, 8:40 am

Author: Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota

ANDREW C. BERGAN was born in Rock Dell township December 29,
1862. (For an account of his parentage see sketch of K. C.
Bergan.) His youth was spent, like that of other boys of the
time, in getting a common school education at the old pioneer
schools and in helping his parents to clear and cultivate the
farm. Upon reaching manhood he started right by getting married,
and soon bought an eighty-acre tract in Section 12, to which he
afterward added another eighty-acre tract, thus giving him a
fine farm of 160 acres. This place is now well improved and has
good buildings and modern machinery. Mr. Bergan is engaged in
mixed farming and in raising live stock for the market. He is
up-to-date in all his operations and puts into effect many of
the best scientific methods. His automobile is the first one
owned in the township. He holds stock in the Zumbro Creamery
Company, in the Farmers' Elevator Company at Stewartville. In
politics he is a Republican and has held the office of township
assessor for two years, and clerk for twenty years, in his
school district. He was confirmed in St. Olaf's church, of which
he is a member and has been a trustee for several years. He is
popular owing to his unfailing good nature and his genial
companionship. His wife was formerly Miss Cora Sulland, daughter
of Soren and Christina Sulland, early settlers of Rock Dell
township. To this union the following children were born: Caia,
born November 19, 1888, who finished her education at the
Ladies' Seminary, at Red Wing, now with her parents; Charles,
born December 8, 1891, now attending Gales College, Wisconsin.

Additional Comments:
Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota: together with sketches of many
of its pioneers, 
citizens, families, and institutions. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association,
1910.

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