Biography of Frank H. Borden - Mercer Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Pg. 400-401 

FRANK H. BORDEN was educated as a mechanical engineer, but his business
experience has been largely in the field of banking and the building supply
and coal business.  He is manager of the Citizens Coal and Supply Company
of Bluefield, a business that has reached an imposing volume under his
management. 

Mr. Borden was born at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, August 16,
1883, son of James H. and Margaret (Walters) Borden.  His parents were also
natives of Montgomery county, and his father died January 19, 1915, at the
age of sixty-four, and his mother in 1910, at the age of fifty-eight.
James Borden for thirty years was in the service of the Norfolk & Western
Railroad as a stone mason, and was foreman of the Lynchburg & Radford
Division.  He was an ex-Confederate soldier, having been in the war with a
Virginia regiment until the final surrender at Appomattox.  He and his wife
were devout members of the Christian Church.

Frank H. Borden is the youngest of five children.  He attended the public
schools of Blacksburg, spent one year in a business college at Roanoke, and
took his course in mechanical engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute at Blacksburg.  He finished his technical education at the age of
twenty-two and soon afterward became assistant cashier of the Radford Trust
Company.  For one year he was connected with a hotel at Christiansburg,
Virginia, and in 1910 removed to Bluefield, where he assumed the management
of the Citizens Coal and Supply Company.  He has been promoting the growth
and prosperity of this company ever since, and it now does a business ten
times the volume it did when he took charge.  Mr. Borden is an interested
and public spirited citizen, and during the war worked with the various
loan and Red Cross committees.  He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
Rotary Club, and he and Mrs. Borden are active in the Christian Church.

He married, October 2, 1909, Bessie L. Smith, daughter of H. P. Smith, of
Christiansburg.  Mr. and Mrs. Borden have one son and four daughters.


Submitted by Linda Katalenich <KatalenL@stratcom.mil>

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