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From: "Maggie Stewart" <>
Subject: KARL BURGHARDT.
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:57:18 -0500

"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II


p. 468-469




KARL BURGHARDT.

Karl Burghardt, secretary of the Patterson-Burghardt Construction
Company of Denver, was born in Lanesville, Connecticut, December 8,
1872, a son of the late E. H. Burghardt, who was a native of
Massachusetts and belonged to one of the old families of that state of
Dutch origin founded in the new world in colonial days. Among the
ancestors were those who aided in the founding of Albany, New York. E.
H. Burghardt was a mechanical engineer and followed that profession
throughout his entire life. In 1883 he removed westward to St. Paul,
Minnesota, where he remained until his life's labors were ended in
death. He married Emma Louise Fairchild, a native of Massachusetts and
a representative of an old New England family of English lineage. Among
her ancestors were some who participated in the Revolutionary war. Mrs.
Burghardt died in the old home at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 5, 1916,
at the age of sixty-eight years. In the family were two sons and a
daughter: Karl, of this review; Elizabeth; and Arthur W., a structural
engineer and contractor residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Karl Burghardt pursued his education in the public schools of his
native state and of St. Paul, Minnesota, until he had completed a high
school course in that city, after which he entered the University of
Minnesota. On attaining his majority he started out in the business
world independently, being first employed as a draftsman at the
Gillette-Herzog Iron Works of Minneapolis. In that plant he learned the
trade of structural steel engineering and was employed along that line
in connection with leading firms, including the Minneapolis house and
the L. Schreiber & Sons Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. His efficiency and
faithfulness is indicated in the fact that he was with only two firms
until he entered business on his own account. On the 1st of January,
1900, he arrived in Denver and for six months was associated with the
steel works of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at Pueblo. He then
returned to Denver and became associated with M. J. Patterson, forming
the M. J. Patterson Contracting Company, which later became the
Patterson-Burghardt Construction Company. Their business is exclusively
steel construction work and railroad bridges and is among the largest
of the kind in the state.

On the 3d of June, 1896, Mr. Burghardt was married in Cincinnati,
Ohio, to Miss E. Blanche King, a native of Cincinnati. Politically he
maintains an independent course and fraternally is connected with
Albert Pike Lodge, No. 117, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to the Denver
Athletic Club and to the Lakewood Country Club and he and his wife are
members of the Congregational church. Mrs. Burghardt is very active in
Red Cross work and in charitable and philanthropic movements. They have
one son, Fairchild King, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 26,
1897, and is a student of engineering in the University of Colorado.
Mr. Burghardt turns to motoring, billiards and golf for recreation but
his efforts and attention are most largely concentrated upon his
business and entirely Through his own efforts he has worked his way
upward since making his initial step in the business world when a young
man of twenty-one years.

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