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Max Gottberg Sr.

Birth	:	22 Dec 1861 Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Death	:	16 Nov 1944
Burial	:	Westlawn Cemetery, Littleton, Middlesex County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.5407486, -71.4979706
Description	:	From the web site: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/whoplabios.html GOTTBERG, MAX SR: Auto Dealer; b Brooklyn, N Y Dec 21, 1861; s of Frederic W Gottberg-Bertha; ed Brooklyn N Y; m Ida Schwab 6-21-1883 Columbus; s Max F, Jacob Edward, Oscar, Alex, Milton, John; 1881 came to Platte Co, farmed until 1906; 1906- opr Gottberg Motor Co, also in impl bus, Columbus; Rotary; IOOF; BPOE; Sons of Hermann; WOW; Luth Ch; Rep; hobby, hunting; father came from Sweden; res Columbus. ----------------------------------------------- The History of Platte county, NE by Margaret Curry-1950: Max Gottberg, son of Frederick W. and Bertha Gottberg, born January 22,... Read More	From the web site: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/whoplabios.html GOTTBERG, MAX SR: Auto Dealer; b Brooklyn, N Y Dec 21, 1861; s of Frederic W Gottberg-Bertha; ed Brooklyn N Y; m Ida Schwab 6-21-1883 Columbus; s Max F, Jacob Edward, Oscar, Alex, Milton, John; 1881 came to Platte Co, farmed until 1906; 1906- opr Gottberg Motor Co, also in impl bus, Columbus; Rotary; IOOF; BPOE; Sons of Hermann; WOW; Luth Ch; Rep; hobby, hunting; father came from Sweden; res Columbus. ----------------------------------------------- The History of Platte county, NE by Margaret Curry-1950: Max Gottberg, son of Frederick W. and Bertha Gottberg, born January 22, 1860, in Brooklyn, New York, was the first Columbus Ford dealer. He attended school in Brooklyn, and at an early age, went to work on a tugbook from Wappingersa Falls to Hamburg, New York. Following that, he learned the weaving trade and was employed for three years in the wool and silk mills in New Jersey. After the death of his father, Max, then twenty, accompanied by his mother, two brothers and two sisters, came west to Columbus, Nebraska, arriving here February 15, 1881. His mother bought eighty acres of railroad land, north of Columbus for five dollars an acre and the family set up in farming. A few years later, she sold the farm to Max and moved to Arkansas. While living on the farm, Max met and married Ida Schaad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Schaad. The ceremony was performed June 21, 1883. The Schaads had come to Platte County from Switzerland in 1866 and located on a farm in Bismark Township, north of Columbus. Ida was born October 13, 1860, in Schwantshauser Canton Aarwangen, Switzerland, and came to the United States at the age of six with her parents. She attended the district school and grew up in Bismark Township. After their marriage, Max and Ida (Schaad) Gottberg established their home on his eighty-acre farm, in Shell Creek Township, where they lived until 1892, when he bought one hundred sixty acres of land from Henry Burke, two miles from their first farm. Besides farming, Mr. Gottberg was interested in machinery. He owned and operated the first steam threshing machine in Platte County, from 1899-1907. In 1903, he attended the World's Fair, in St. Louis, and purchased there his first automobile, which had two cylinders. At that time, Howard Clark, Columbus banker, and Charles Dack, owner of the Dack Drug Store, on Thirteenth Street, now Miessler's Drug Store, were the only other automobile owners in Columbus. In 1905, when August Wagner was having trouble getting a machanic to fix his Ford, Max Gottberg offered to do it. That was the beginning of his career as an automobile machanic. Soon after, he started a repair shop on his farm, and in 1906, took a contract to sell a small make of car. After a year of selling on the farm, he moved into Columbus in 1907, bought the old Hubert Hotel and built the first garage in Columbus. As his business grew, he enlarged the building. In 1920 Gottberg & Sons Built the present two-story building on the same site, at the northwest corner of Thirteenth Street and Twenty-eighth Avenue, at the cost of Sixty-five thousand dollars. On the opening of his garage, Max Gottberg also sold gasoline. He was probably the second gasoline and oil dealer, as Park Miller has preceded him in that field. Max and Ida Gottberg has six sons: Max, Jr. married Louise Arndt, and lives in Columbus, where he was formerly associated with his father's company; Jacob married Bertha Schwank, and they farm in Shell Creek Township; Oscar lives in Phoenix, Arizona; Alex married Margaret Banish and farms in Columbus Township, north of Columbus; Milton married Jane Westercamp and owns and operates the Ford Automobile Agency, at Fairfield, Iowa; John, previous to his death on December 7, 1938, had a Ford Agency at Sigourney, Iowa. Max Gottberg was in the automobile business from 1907 until November, 1944. He held memberships in the Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, and the Wayside Country Club. The Gottbergs were Lutherans. Mrs. Gottberg died September 9, 1933, and Max Gottberg died November 16, 1944.

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Max Gottberg Sr.'s memorial is located at: Westlawn Cemetery, Littleton, Middlesex County, USA.
When did Max Gottberg Sr. death?
Max Gottberg Sr. death on 16 Nov 1944 in
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Latitude: 42.5407486
Longitude: -71.4979706

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Ida Schaad Gottberg

(1860 - 1933)

Siblings

Mathilda Gottberg Herring

(1865 - 1956)

Bertha Augusta Gottberg Morris

(1874 - 1921)

Children

Max Frederick Gottberg Jr.

(1884 - 1964)

Jacob Werner Gottberg

(1886 - 1970)

Oscar A. Gottberg

(1888 - 1963)

Alex Gottberg

(1890 - 1967)

Milton Henry Gottberg

(1892 - 1959)

John F. Gottberg

(1894 - 1939)

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Littleton, Middlesex County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5407486, -71.4979706

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Coordinate: 42.5451060, -71.4764600

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Coordinate: 42.5508194, -71.5721512

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Coordinate: 42.5883210, -71.4548420

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Coordinate: 42.5508490, -71.4166670

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Coordinate: 42.4758377, -71.5134506

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Coordinate: 42.6091537, -71.4668121

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Coordinate: 42.5868034, -71.4216919

17. Davis Monument
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Coordinate: 42.4855800, -71.4334100

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Coordinate: 42.5237503, -71.4003601

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Coordinate: 42.4684868, -71.4735718

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Coordinate: 42.4991989, -71.5847015

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Coordinate: 42.6074333, -71.4444809

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Coordinate: 42.4787700, -71.4231000

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