Obituary

John J. Borger, Superintendent of Electrical Distribution for the Springfield Gas & Electric Company, Springfield, Missouri, and a member of the Institute since 1916, died April 9, 1930. He was born July 23, 1882, at Alexandria, Virginia, and received his education at the common schools in Florida and at the University of Florida, from which he was graduated with the class of 1901. From 1901 to 1904 he was engaged with the Florida Electric Company, Jacksonville, Florida, but left the employ of this company in 1905 to identify himself with the Public Service Electric Company of New Jersey, first as electrician and later becoming District Foreman. In 1906 he was made Chief Electrician in charge of the company´s station in the Bergen Division, N. J., and then returned to the South to become Electrical Superintendent for the Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation, Augusta, Ga., where his work was in designing, constructing and operating high-voltage lines and distribution systems, both overhead and underground. Mr. Borger had been with the Springfield interests for a number of years.