Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — JOHN BERGER DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JOHN BERGER DEAD.

Former Prominent Resident of Remington Died at Marion, Ohio, Tuesday. John Berger, a pioneer lumber and coal dealer, banker and farmer of Remington. died in a sanitarium at Marion, Oliio. where he was taking treatment. Tuesday. He had been in poor health for the past few months. His age was about 71 years. ,He leaves one son. Fred of near Remington, and one daughter, Miss Blanche Berger of Huntington, to which city Mr. Berger moved a few years ago. His wife, who had been an invalid for a number of years, died only a few months since. Mr. Burger was connected with his brother-in-law, Robert Parker, in the. banking business tor - some years, selling out his interest -to the latter about 22 years ago. He was also engaged in the lumber and coal business in Remington many years ago and amassed a comfortable competency, some $28,000 of which is alleged to have been lost in "the Parker bank failure. The burial took place at Remington yesterday afternoon. Mr. Berger was a Civil War veteran.