FIRST - Brick Residence in Borger, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 40.522 W 101° 23.521
14S E 283512 N 3950579
Colorful character built the home and died ignominiously.
Waymark Code: WMTJ50
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2016
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County of Marker: Hutchinson County
Location of Marker: 829 N. Hedgecoke St., Borger
Marker Erected by: Texas Historic Commission
Date Marker Erected: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1976
Marker text:
ACE BORGER HOME
The founder of Borger, Missouri-born Asa P. ("Ace") Borger (1888-1934), established other cities in Texas and Oklahoma before he platted this townsite in 1926 and helped transform a rowdy oil town into a stable community. In 1928-29 he and his wife Elizabeth (1888-1933) built this 2-story home,
the first brick residence in Borger. It was later occupied by the families of their daughter and son-in-law, Helen and Fritz Thompson, and of their grandson, David W. Thompson.
How Ace Died:
Named after Asa "Ace" Borger, land speculator and town builder, Borger lost its namesake in a one-sided shootout in the Borger Post Office in 1934. It seems that the County Treasurer, Arthur Huey (never trust a man with two first names) was miffed at Ace for not bailing him out of jail on an embezzlement charge. Huey confronted Ace while he was licking a stamp and called him a bunch of names. Mr. Borger could live with that; but then Huey shot him five times with a .45, which Mr. Borger could not live with. To add insult to fatal injury, Huey took Borger's .44 and shot him again (along with a few other postal patrons). It is not known if Mr. Borger's letter was ever delivered.
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