John G. Bergen
John G. Bergen [1]
a Presbyterian. minister, was born at Hightstown, N. J., Nov. 27, 1790. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1808; was tutor in that institution, 1810 to 1812; became pastor at Madison, N. J., in 1812; had sixteen years of great success; and finally removed to Springfield, Ill., in 1828, where he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and where he died, Jan. 10, 1872. "He was a man of power and influence; cheerful, earnest, courageous, consecrated, and everywhere honored. So long and faithfully did he labor in the West, and much of the time in pioneer work, that he came to be known as the ‘ Old Man of the Prairie.'" See Aikman, Hist. Discourse concerning the Presb. Church in Madison, N. J., p. 14-21; Tuttle, Hist. of the Presb. Church in Madison, N. J. (N. Y. 1855), p. 52; Presbyterian, Feb. 3, 1872.
