So, what does his gravestone say?
Gail Borden, Jr.
> But he came back to NY, to be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery......;-)
And what a great advertisement that is for New York, eh? :>
Gail Borden, Jr.
He's in good company......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery_%28Bronx,_New_York%29
Nelson Jacobs La Coste, City Surveyor
Brigadier General Charles Kinnaird Graham, surveyor of the port of New York, also helped layout Central Park.
Matthew Alexander Henson, African-American Surveyor, geographer and explorer, companion of Peary on his trip to the North pole. Henson is reputedly the first person to actually reach the Pole, beating Peary by about 45 minutes. (Later re-interred at Arlington National.)
John Anderson Bensel, surveyor for the Pennsylvania RR, and Surveyor/Engineer in charge of North (Hudson) River waterfront construction.
Major General (CSA) Mansfield Lovell, generally blamed for the loss of New Orleans to the Union, resumed his career as a civil engineer and surveyor in NYC after the War.
Herman Melville, who worked as a surveyor on the Erie Canal.
Gail Borden, Jr.
> He's in good company......
I take it that few of these folks ever worked in Texas, then? :>
Gail Borden, Jr.
Well, Graham served in the Navy in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican-American War, and after 1857 was the constructing engineer of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Lovell was severely wounded during the Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War, and returned to NYC to be a street commissioner before the War Between the States, when he enlisted asan officer in the Confederate Army.
So they were in the neighborhood........
Borden was a tough act to follow
> So they were in the neighborhood........
Well, admittedly they would have had a hard time beating the record of Texas surveyor Gail Borden, Jr. I mean, he'd already invented condensed milk and had determined that the meat biscuit wasn't commercially viable. What was left? Light Beer? Fortunately for James Coburn's career on television commercials, none of them thought to patent the idea and had to work at the lesser endeavors already mentioned such as the search for Eskimos or Mexico.
AHA! Did You Mention Beer?
Well, Woodlawn has the Schaefer brothers, Frederick and Maximilian, the guys who brought Lager beer to the USA.
Up until the early 1970's, "Schaefer (was) the one beer to have when you're having more than one."
AHA! Did You Mention Beer?
> Well, Woodlawn has the Schaefer brothers, Frederick and Maximilian, the guys who brought Lager beer to the USA.
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> Up until the early 1970's, "Schaefer (was) the one beer to have when you're having more than one."
Okay, I'm considering conceding the point - for now. LOL!
Gail Borden, Jr.
When I was a kid, Borden County only had one school. We played against them in 8 man football. The last time I was thru there, things hadn't changed much. I think the football may be 6 man now.
James
Lizzie Andrew Borden
Did she swing a hatchet or a Sling Blade?
DDSM
(hold my beer and watch this:beer: )
