George V. Borchsenius

George Valdemar Borchsenius (July 15, 1865 – September 10, 1945) was an American attorney. He was the first clerk of the court of the Nome judicial division of Alaska.[1]

George Valdemar Borchsenius

Background

Borchsenius was born in Madison, Wisconsin.[2] His father, Hans Borchsenius, was a Danish-born newspaperman and politician.[2] His mother, Martha M. Bakke, was born in Norway, a daughter of Hans E. Bakke, of Copenhagen. He had a brother William Carl and a sister Dora H.[3] When Borchsenius was 12 years old, he moved with his parents to Baldwin, Wisconsin.[2] He attended the public schools of Wisconsin and subsequently was graduated from the law department of University of Wisconsin–Madison.[4]

Career

While a resident of Baldwin he learned the printers trade. At a later period, he engaged in the hardware and general mercantile business, and subsequently, with his father and brother, conducted a real estate and loan agency under the firm name of H. Borchsenius & Sons. In 1885, he returned to Madison and assisted in the compilation of the state census. Following the completion of this work, he was employed in the executive office by Governor Jeremiah McLain Rusk, and at a later date was connected with the land office.

In 1891, he returned to Baldwin, and for a period of four years was in the real estate and loan business. In 1895, he went back to Madison as assistant to the state treasurer. He was in Madison in 1899 when the reports of the Eldorado at Nome reached the states, and he determined to try his fortune in the newly discovered gold fields. In the spring of 1900, he received the appointment of Clerk of the U. S. District Court, and arrived in Nome and entered upon the discharge of his duties July 9.[5]

In July 1901, he was retired by Arthur H. Noyes, (1854-1915) who had been appointed United States Federal Judge for the District of Alaska. In a fraudulent scheme to seize rich mining claims, Alexander McKenzie, Republican National Committeeman for North Dakota, had secured the appointment of his hand-picked candidates for the government positions, including that of federal judge. One year later, Borchsenius was re-appointed to the office by Judge Albert S. Moore of San Francisco. By 1904, was the only one of the first federal appointees in Nome who filled the office to which he was first appointed. [6]

Borchsenius later acquired by purchase, considerable mining property in the vicinity of Nome, and expended near $25,000 in its development. He was the owner of No. 12 Anvil Creek and three benches adjoining and near the very rich Mattie claim. He owned or had a controlling interest in Specimen Gulch property from Anvil Creek to Summit Bench. Pay was not struck until 1904. Besides these properties Borchsenius owned some quartz claims between Rock and Lindblom Creeks.[7][8]

Personal life

September 14, 1887, Borchsenius and Lula M. Bockus were married in Baldwin. Harold, their only child, was born December 4, 1891.[9] George Borchsenius died in Los Angeles in 1945.[2]

Sources
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: E.S. Harrison's Nome and Seward Peninsula (1905)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: E. W. Keyes's History of Dane County: Biographical and Genealogical (1906)
gollark: What makes them better than the advertising companies then?
gollark: I am leaving off the second half so as not to fill more than a screen or so.
gollark: No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
gollark: Oh, wait, better idea.
gollark: Hey, I *said* (GNU[+/])Linux, isn't that good enough for you, Stallman?!

References
  1. C.A. Clausen. "Life in the Klondike and Alaska Gold Fields". The Norwegian-American Historical Association (Volume XVI: Page 120). Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  2. "Borchsenius, City Native, Court Clerk in Gold Rush, Dies". Wisconsin State Journal. September 14, 1945. p. 4. Retrieved March 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Keyes History of Dane County: Biographical and Genealogical 1906, p. 104.
  4. "Hans Borchsenius". City of Madison. January 1, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  5. Carl L. Lokke (December 1949). "A Madison Man at Nome". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 33 (2): 164–183. JSTOR 4632116.
  6. R. S. Harrison (1905). "Nome and Seward Peninsula". Seattle: Metropolitan Press. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  7. "Specimen Gulch Mines, Nome District, Nome Borough, Alaska". Mindat.org. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  8. "Lindblom Pit lode and lode on Byron Association Placer claim". Mindat.org. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  9. Harrison, Edward Sanford (1905). Nome and Seward Peninsula. Seattle, Washington: E.S. Harrison. pp. 349–. ISBN 978-5-87893-953-9.

Bibliography
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.