Carl Berg was born on a farm in Osterjotland, Sweden, on January 27, 1867. As a young man, age 20, he came to the United States and settled at Aurora, Nebraska. He came to Carrington in 1898 where he worked as a farm laborer and a homesteaded in Hawksnest Township. On August 1, 1900, he married Mrs. Amanda Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.M. Kallberg, who was born November 1, 1869, at Center City, Minnesota. The Kallbergs had come to the area in 1883 and Amanda Smith had filed on a homestead, which later became the family home.
The Bergs had four children: Alice, Esther, Wilfred and Harold. Mrs. Berg had a son by her previous marriage to Emil Smith.
Mrs. Berg died in 1951; Mr. Berg on May 22, 1961, age 94. They are buried in the Carrington Cemetery.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 67B