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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

KARL BURGHARDT.

    Karl Burghardt, secretary of the Patterson-Burghardt Construction Company of
Denver, was born in Lanesville, Connecticut, December 8, 1872, a son of the late
E. H. Burghardt, who was a native of Massachusetts and belonged to one of the
old families of that state of Dutch origin founded in the new world in colonial
days. Among the ancestors were those who aided in the founding of Albany, New
York. E. H. Burghardt was a mechanical engineer and followed that profession
throughout his entire life. In 1883 he removed westward to St. Paul, Minnesota,
where he remained until his life's labors were ended in death. He married Emma
Louise Fairchild, a native of Massachusetts and a representative of an old New
England family of English lineage. Among her ancestors were some who
participated in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Burghardt died in the old home at
St. Paul, Minnesota, January 5, 1916, at the age of sixty-eight years. In the
family were two sons and a daughter: Karl, of this review; Elizabeth; and Arthur
W., a structural engineer and contractor residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Karl Burghardt pursued his education in the public schools of his native
state and of St. Paul, Minnesota, until he had completed a high school course in
that city, after which he entered the University of Minnesota. On attaining his
majority he started out in the business world independently, being first
employed as a draftsman at the Gillette-Herzog Iron Works of Minneapolis. In
that plant he learned the trade of structural steel engineering and was employed
along that line in connection with leading firms, including the Minneapolis
house and the L. Schreiber & Sons Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. His efficiency
and faithfulness is indicated in the fact that he was with only two firms until
he entered business on his own account. On the 1st of January, 1900, he arrived
in Denver and for six months was associated with the steel works of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company at Pueblo. He then returned to Denver and became associated
with M. J. Patterson, forming the M. J. Patterson Contracting Company, which
later became the Patterson-Burghardt Construction Company. Their business is
exclusively steel construction work and railroad bridges and is among the
largest of the kind in the state.

    On the 3d of June, 1896, Mr. Burghardt was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, to
Miss E. Blanche King, a native of Cincinnati. Politically he maintains an
independent course and fraternally is connected with Albert Pike Lodge, No. 117,
A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to the Denver Athletic Club and to the Lakewood
Country Club and he and his wife are members of the Congregational church. Mrs.
Burghardt is very active in Red Cross work and in charitable and philanthropic
movements. They have one son, Fairchild King, who was born in Cincinnati; Ohio,
July 25, 1897, and is a student of engineering in the University of Colorado.
Mr. Burghardt turns to motoring, billiards and golf for recreation but his
efforts and attention are most largely, concentrated upon his business and
entirely through his> own efforts he has worked his way upward since making his
initial step in the business world when a young man of twenty-one years.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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