FELIX NEPPER, farmer, P. O. Berwick, was born in Belgium, November 13, 1815, son of Bernard and Mary J. Nepper, also natives of Belgium, where they lived and died. Our subject was married in Belgium, October 30, 1849, to Josephine Defountain, born March 20, 1820, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Defountain, who departed this life in the old country. Our subject and wife have four children: Charles, born February 7, 1850; Margaret, born June 17, 1854; Victor, born November 25, 1857; Augustus, born October 3, 1859. Mr. Nepper came to this county in 1853. He has been engaged in farming all his life, and now owns eighty-nine acres of improved land in Big Spring Township, whereon he resides. He and all his family are faithful members of the Catholic Church of St. Nicholas.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.726
BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP