AUGUSTUS S. BORDNER is a native of Berks County, Penn., and is the son of Augustus and Harriet Bordner, residents of Relirersburg. Our subject's boyhood was passed on his father's farm and in attending the common schools. Later he attended the Freeland Seminary, Montgomery County, Penn., and then taught for six winters and one full year. He came to Brookston in 1868, and in 1870 engaged in the lumber trade, in which he still continues. Mr. Bordner was married in Brookston to Miss E. C. Anderson, a daughter of John Anderson, a farmer of Ford County, Ill., and to this union has been born one child, Ira J. Mr. Bordner has served as Trustee of Prairie Township for three terms; he is a Royal Arch Mason, and both he and wife are members of the Universalist Church.

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