BERGEN, Christopher
Augustus, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Bridge
Point, Somerset County, N.J., August 2, 1841; attended Harlingen
School and Edge Hill Classical School and was graduated from
Princeton College in 1863; studied law; was licensed by the supreme
court of New Jersey in 1866 as an attorney and commenced practice
in Camden, N.J.; licensed as a counselor in 1869; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4,
1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1892; resumed the practice of law; in 1903 moved to Haverford,
Montgomery County, Pa., where he died on February 18, 1905;
interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Camden, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
