Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Borger, Charles A. 1860 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLES A. BORGER.

    Prominent and influential in the business and public life of Hobart, Charles
A. Borger is now engaged in the manufacture of harness there, and is also a
member of the town board, and while successfully conducting his private business
affairs he is at the same time ably assisting in getting community interests
which affect the entire town. His wide acquaintance and the esteem in which he
is uniformly held renders it imperative that his life history be given a place
in this volume.

    He was born in Hanover township, Lake county, October 5, 1860, and is a son
of John and Metta (Meyer) Borger, the former born in Hanover, Germany, and the
latter in Bremen, Germany. It was after their emigration to the new world that
they were married, the wedding ceremony being performed in Lake county. They
then took up their abode in Hanover township, and the father carried on
agricultural pursuits until his life's labors were ended in death, when he was
but fifty-six years of age. He had been a resident of the county since 1842 and
during the greater part of that period was a factor in agricultural circles. His
wife died when but fifty-four years of age. They were the parents of nine
children, all born in Lake county, and eight of the number are still living, Mr.
C. A. Borger being the fourth son and fifth child.

    Upon the home farm in Hanover township, Charles A. Borger spent the days of
his boyhood, remaining with his mother until nineteen years of age, when he
entered upon an apprenticeship to the harness-maker's trade in Dyer, Indiana. He
served for a term of four years and then went to Chicago, where he worked for
one year. On the expiration of that period he came to Hobart in 1885 and here
began the manufacture of harness. He received a little aid from his parents in
the beginning of his business career. In 1893 he built his present place of
business, which is a two-story brick structure, in which he is now conducting
one of the leading productive industries of the city. He has secured a liberal
patronage, owing to the excellence of the goods which he manufactures and to his
honorable treatment of his patrons.

    Mr. Borger was married in October, 1885, the lady of his choice being Miss
Henrietta Batterman, who was born January 3, 1864, in Will county, Illinois,
being a sister of E. Batterman, who is represented elsewhere in this work. They
are the parents of two daughters, Sena and Edna. Sena was born July 3, 1886; she
graduated in the class of 1903 in the Hobart township high school, and is now
one of Lake county's successful teachers, at Miller's Station. Edna was born
March 15, 1893, and is in the sixth grade of the Hobart schools. Mr. Borger
exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the
Republican party and has firm faith in its principles and in their ultimate
triumph. He is now a member of the town board. Fraternally he is connected with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 333, with the Knights of Pythias
Lodge, No. 458, and with the Knights of the Maccabees, Tent No. 65, and also a
member of the Masonic fraternity, No. 357. He enjoys the warm esteem of his
brethren of these orders, for he is true to their teaching and the beneficent
principles upon which they are founded. He has in his business career made
consecutive progress, and his course has been marked by desirable
accomplishment, but when he started out in life for himself he possessed little
capital, nor did he receive any advantages from influential family connection.
He has worked persistently and has gained prosperity as the result of earnest
labor, in which keen discrimination and sound business judgment have formed a
part.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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