G. A. HELLBERG, cooper, Platteville; was born Dec. 4, 1837, in Jonkoping, Sweden. He learned his trade in Sweden of his father, who was a cooper, and left home when not quite 16 years old; he worked in Stockholm and Gothoborg, Sweden, Fredrickshull, Norway, and Abo in Finland, Russia. He was a member of a military organization called the "Free-Will Sharpshooters," and was a Corporal at the time he left Sweden; while there, he took the sixth Government prize for sharp shooting in a company of 450 men; he belonged to one of the oldest families in Sweden; held the office of Poor Master for two years, and was Secretary of the Workingmen's Association, and Captain in the Fire Department of his native village; came to America in 1867, worked a few months in Chicago, and about one year in Rockford, Ill.; came to Darlington, Wis., in 1869, and to Platteville in 1870; does brewery work and all kinds of first-class work. He was married in 1860, in Sweden, to Anna Maria Wallender, and has three children - Gustaf Syver, Ann Alfrida and Hedwig Maria.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.