Bio: Bergevin, Peter (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 205.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PETER BERGEVIN.

PETER BERGEVIN, City Treasurer, Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin, May 3, 1866; located in this place, and was engaged in clerking in mercantile business up to 1874; was elected City Treasurer in that year; re-elected in 1875; then up to 1880, was employed in lumbering on his own account. Was re-elected City Treasurer, April 6, 1881. Born in Canada, April 14. 1840; came to America, 1865; was in Minnesota for one year. Married in Chippewa Falls, April 19, 1869, to Celind Billiard; born in Upper Canada. They have four children—Frank, Orelia, Albina and Edward; two deceased.