Kern County Biographies

H. L. BORGWARDT

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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H. L. BORGWARDT, Jr., Sheriff of Kern County, was born in El Dorado County, 
California, March 12, 1857, at the town of Greenwood. A carefully prepared 
sketch of the life and experiences of his parents as pioneers of California, 
which appears elsewhere in this work, gives an idea as to the manner in which 
the early life of our subject was spent. During his boyhood he was afforded the 
advantages of a good common-school education, which he improved. He inherited 
the instincts of a first-class business man, which were developed by actual 
experience with his father, who learned to depend on him to shoulder some of his 
business cares. In 1877 he embarked in the stock and butchering business for 
himself, in which enterprise he was eminently successful, and in which he 
continued in Bakersfield until elected to his present responsible public 
position, when he closed out the best organized and conducted meat market and 
slaughtering business in the County. Sheriff Borgwardt's excellent business 
qualifications are a safe guarantee that the duties of the office which he has 
at this writing just assumed, will be performed in a manner alike creditable to 
himself and the Republican party.
   He has property in Kern County, both ranch and residence. He was one of the 
original organizers of, and stockholders in, the Bakersfield Water Company, and 
is a stockholder in the Bank of Bakersfield; is a member of the order of the K. 
of P., and a social, genial and popular citizen.
   He was married April 10, 1882 to Miss Nora C. , daughter of Miller Smith, a 
pioneer of Kern County, a miller by occupation, and now is a native daughter, 
being born in Visalia, Tulare County, and she has one daughter, Gertrude Louise, 
born August 18, 1884.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - page 783