Peter Burger

1865 - 1893  (28 years)

• Name	Peter Burger
  Born	1865	, Germany   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Factory Hand
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Roman Catholic
  Occupation	1893	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States   [2]
  	barber
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-137667
  Died	2 Mar 1893	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
  	Cause: suicide
  Person ID	I137667	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Peter Burger,   b. 1827, , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Maria,   b. 1845, , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F34257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  A SAD SUICIDE A former Berlin Citizen said to have ended his own life last night in Detroit Peter Burger, caretaker of the Berlin High School, received a sad telegram, this morning from Detroit, briefly saying that his son Peter, a barber in that city, had committed suicide last night and asking him to go over. Mr. Burger, as is well known, cannot read or speak much English and so was at a loss as to what the strange message could mean. Taking it over to a neighbor's house the sad intelligence of his son having ended his life by his own hand broke in upon him and his grief was intense and the scrap of information received afforded little or no satisfaction. The young man in question is about twenty-seven years of age, and left Berlin some eight years ago to the learn the barbering with a step-brother in Detroit. He was married and leaves a small family and wife behind. He has for some time been running a shop of his own and was thought to be doing well. It is three years since he visited home or been seen by the members of the family in Berlin. About a month ago, a brother wrote to the unfortunate young man but received no reply hence no reason can be assigned for the rash act. The message is supposed to be from the dead man's wife, who in her trouble and sorrow failed to attach her signature to the despatch. Anthony Burger, a brother and August Bervig a step-brother of the man, left this afternoon on the three o clock train for Detroit to investigate the matter and make arrangements for the burial. It is not yet known whether the body will be brought here for interment or not. The grief-stricken father could not go over, owing to his various duties that demand his attention. His friends will no doubt extend to him every sympathy in this trying moment and not let the fact of the son having found a suicide's grave, check the flow of comfort to the bereaved family. Daily Telegraph newspaper, 3 Mar 1893

  
  

• Sources

  [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div. 2 Pg. 18. [S20] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Telegraph (title varies: Berlin Telegraph, Berlin Daily Telegraph) (1853-1922), 3 Mar 1893 - Obituary of Peter Burger.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1865 - , Germany Occupation - Factory Hand - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Roman Catholic - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - barber - 1893 - Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Died - Cause: suicide - 2 Mar 1893 - Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States  = Link to Google Earth