Edward W. Berger was educated in the public and high schools of New York City, graduating from the latter in 1883. He then entered Packard Institute in New York and took a full course in mechanical engineering, meanwhile holding a position with the Ingersoll Rock Drill Company, at that time the largest manufacturers of all kinds of mining machinery in the world. In the dual capacities of student and employee he obtained not only a theoretical but a practical knowledge of the profession in which he has achieved success. He was graduated from Packard Institute with the degree of M.E. in 1889, and remained with the Ingersoll Rock Drill Company from 1883 to 1895, having for several years full charge of all inside detail work in connection with the machinery. Resigning this position in February, 1895, he engaged in the machine, hardware, and plumbing supply business in the Town of Union, N. J., where be soon made a record as an able, substantial, and enterprising business man. In April, 1896, he built his present store and home on the corner of Bull's Ferry road and Fulton Street in Weehawken, and there he has continued his business operations on the same lines, building up an extensive trade. He conducts the largest business in the line of machine, hardware, and plumbing supplies in North Hudson County, and has supplied some of the heaviest contractors in connection with all the principal work in that section. With hire are associated his half-brother, Frederick G. Baumann, and step-father, Frederick C. Baumann.