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Berg, Louis De Coppet

architect, engineer, author, was born in 1856. He is an architect and civil engineer of New York city, and has published a valuable work on Safe Building.

BERGEN, CHRISTOPHER AUGUST- US, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 1841, in Bridge Point, N. J. He was educated at Harlingen school, at Edge Hill classical school, and at Princeton college, graduating from the academic department in 1863; studied law, and was licensed by the supreme court of New Jersey as an attorney at law November, 1866, and as a counselor at law November, 1869. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a republican.

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