Biography of Fred Bunge, pages 665/666.  History of DeKalb County, Indiana; 
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.

Fred Bunge

	It is not and easy task to describe adequately a man who has led and 
eminently active and busy life and who has attained a position of relative 
distinction in the community with which his interests are allied. But 
biography finds it most complete justification, nevertheless, in the 
tracing and recording of such a life history.  It is, then, with a full 
appreciation of all that is demanded and of the painstaking scrutiny that 
must be accorded each statement, and yet with a feeling of satisfaction, 
that the writer essays the task of touching briefly upon the details of 
such a record as has been that of the honored subject whose life now comes 
under review.
	Fred Bunge is a son of the fatherland, having been born on May 4, 
1832, in Germany, and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Frost) Bunge, both 
of whom also were native of Germany, where they spent their entire lives 
and died.  They were the parents of five children, the subject of this 
sketch, a brother, Louis, and three other children who died in their 
native land.  At the age of twenty-two years the subject of this sketch 
left home, embarking on the 16th day of May 1854, and landed in New York 
on the 1st day of the following July.  The principal capital with which 
his parents had endowed him was a rugged constitution, a stout heart and a 
determination to succeed, which, no doubt, has proven a more desirable 
capital than would have almost any amount of money, unless the latter 
could have been accompanied with the same traits of character.  Thus born 
to environment none too auspicious, Mr. Bunge has forced himself to the 
front and made for himself a proud position among the foremost citizens of 
DeKalb county.  During his first years in the country he was employed at 
anything, which he could find to do which would earn him an honest dollar. 
But, carefully husbanding his resources and working everyday possible, he 
was at last enabled to forge ahead and now is numbered among the 
substantial and influential citizens of Wilmington township, DeKalb 
county, Indiana.  He is the owner of a splendid farm of eighty acres, on 
which are substantial and up-to-date buildings, and here he carries on 
general farming and stock raising in a manner that has stamped him to be a 
man of more than ordinary discernment and sound judgment.
On October 30, 1862, Mr. Bunge was married to Caroline Sharp, and to them 
have been born eight children, namely: Josiah, deceased; John, who lives 
on a farm in this county; Mrs. Nettie Wicker; Mrs. Ellen Pomeroy, of 
Auburn; William, a farmer of this county; Joseph; Mrs. Dora Ridge, of this 
county, and Nora, who lives at home with her parents.  Religiously, Mr. 
Bunge and his family are members of the Reformed Lutheran church, to which 
they contribute liberally and to the various activities of which they give 
earnest support.  Politically, Mr. Bunge is a Democrat, and takes an 
intelligent interest in the affairs of his community, giving his earnest 
support to every movement, which promises to prove beneficial to his fellow 
men, materially, educationally, morally or socially.  Because of his 
earnest life, sturdy habits and his unswerving integrity, he enjoys to a 
notable degree the confidence and regard of the entire community where so 
many of his active years have been spent.

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