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From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 581
HERMAN BERGHEGER has been engaged in the mercantile business at Stitzer,
Grant county, since 1880, and is one of the earlier merchants of that place. He came to the town of Liberty in 1870, engaged in farming, and still owns a handsome farm near the village.
Mr. BERGHEGER was born in 1845 in Germany, where his father died when he was a small child. His mother married A. WEFEL not many years afterward, and Mr. WEFEL brought his family to America in 1859. Herman was the only child of the first union, and three children were born to his mother's second marriage. She died in the fall of 1899. In 1870 Mr. BERGHEGER returned to Germany to settle up his father's estate, and was there married to Miss Louise PIPER; her parents are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. BERGHEGER are now parents of two sons and one daughter, Adolph, Edward and Louise. They have lost one daughter, Lydia, who died at the age of sixteen years. Mr. BERGHEGER is a Republican politically, and a man of character and standing in the community.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck