BERGQUIST, JOHN G., b. in Sweden, Jan. 11, 1849; came to the United States in 1868, and soon afterward to Minnesota; settled in 1870 on a homestead on the site of Moorhead, being the second settler in that town; engaged in farming and in the manufacture of brick.  [35.]

Source:
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society
Volume XIV
Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912
Compiled by Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap
Published by the Society, June, 1912, St. Paul, Minnesota
Page 52