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Submitted: 8/14/23 • Approved: 8/14/23 • Last Updated: 8/17/23 • R831286-G0-S3
17 Jan 1829 Germany
9 Feb 1872 Union Township Jasper Co, Missouri
Son of Johann Georg Borger and Elisabetha Barbara Vierheller
Husband of Mary Maria Devault
PHILIP BORGER (deceased) was a native of Germany; came with his parents to the United States when but two years old: settled in St. Clair county, Ill., where they engaged at farming. Here our subject attained his manhood; went overland to California in 1850, and engaged at mining and freighting, and subsequently at stock-raising. He was married in Sacramento, Cal., to Miss Mary Devault, who was born on board a German emigrant ship on the Atlantic Ocean. Of this marriage there are five children living: George W., Philip, Elizabeth, wife of James Smith; Henry, born in Colorado; and Mary A., born in Jasper county, Mo. During the last years of his residence at the Golden Gate Mr. Borger was proprietor of a brewery in Jackson, Amador county, which was destroyed by fire in 1868. He then, with what means he had saved, came east via Panama and New York. Stopping for a brief visit with old-time friends in Illinois, he came to to Jasper county, Mo., and purchased a tract of unimproved land, where he died Feb. 9, 1872. He was during life a man of much energy, business, tact, and sagacity. His widow and family still reside the farm, and are quite prosperous. The eldest son, George W. was married Dec. 3, 1883, to Miss Rosanna Hall, a native of Missouri, daughter of Jefferson Hall, a resident of Jasper county.
Source: The History of Jasper County, Missouri (1883), pgs. 724-725. UNION TOWNSHIP
(Translated from book print by OCR program. Please pardon any errors I did not catch.)
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