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154	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
ty. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and in politics is a Republican.     Thomas Henry Caddy married Elizabeth Mary Gross, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Tague) Gross of Penzance, Cornwall, England. Henry Gross was a blacksmith. He sailed from England for Australia, and died of cholera soon after landing in that country. John Gross, brother of Mrs. Caddy is a customs officer at Cornwall (St. Michael's). Children of Thomas Henry and Elizabeth Mary (Gross) Caddy: Sarah Ann Caddy, unmarried; lives with her parents; Joseph J. Caddy, a business man of Johnstown and member of the Caddy Coal Company; married and has two children, Joseph Cady and Lillian Caddy. Lilyl Caddy, married Thomas Harris, a brick contractor of Johnstown, and has two children, Thomas Harris and Ellen Harris. Ellen Caddy, a teacher in the Johnstown public schools; lives at home. Annie Caddy, married Emory Barnhart, a machinist, and lives at Roxbury (Johnstown). Zeaida Caddy, a teacher in the Johnstown public schools. Thomas Henry Caddy, Junior, lives at home.     JOHN GUSTAVUS BERGMAN, of Johnstown, has been in the employ of the Cambria Iron Company for nearly thirty Years and during that time has always held an important position in the company's service. He came to Johnstown as an experienced workman, and in the subsequent construction of some of the company's modern departments his skill and knowledge of the business has been of material assistance in arranging for successful operations.     Mr. Bergman is a native of Sweden and was born at Molnbach, March 26, 1854. His father is Charles Gustavus Bergman, of Friestadt, Missouri, which town he founded about thirty years ago. He too was born in Sweden, and by early occupation was a builder of blast furnaces, heating furnaces and structural iron work, an experienced and practical mechanic and one whose work always counted for good results to his employees. In 1870 Charles G. Bergman came with his family to America, landed in Boston and soon afterward went to Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1875 he removed to Missouri, and there founded the now-flourishing town of Friestadt, with its seven thousand inhabitants, chiefly Swedes and Germans. In that municipality he followed farming until a few years ago, and since then has lived in comfortable retirement, in the enjoyment of excellent health at the good old age of seventy-eight years. He married Catherine Jones, a native of Sweden and daughter of Alars Jones, of Nordland. She died in Friestadt, about 1896, and was a devoted member of the Lutheran church, in which faith her children have been brought up. The children of Charles and Catherine Bergman are as follows: 1. John Gustavus, see forward. 2. Charles E., see forward. 3. Bernard, married Lena Jones and lives in Dent county, Missouri. 4. Anna, married Charles Forsman and lives in Springfield, Missouri. 5. Hulda, married Charles Marl, and lives in Springfield, Missouri. 6. Emily, married John Agelquist, and is now a widow living in Friestadt, Missouri.     John Gustavus Bergman, eldest son and child of Charles G. and Catherine (Jones) Bergman, was sixteen years old when his parents emigrated from Sweden to America. He was educated in schools in Molnbach in his native country and also in Worcester, Massachusetts, but his opportunities for obtaining a good public school education were quite limited, as his father then was in moderate circumstance, and it was necessary that young John, the eldest boy in the family, find some

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