Borden, Simeon
inventor, was born Jan. 29, 1798, in Freetown, Mass. He devised and constructed, in 1830, an apparatus for measuring the base line of the trigonometrical survey of Massachusetts, which was found to be more accurate and convenient than any instrument of the kind then in existence. He was employed as surveyor in the case of Rhode Island vs. Massachusetts, tried before the United States supreme court in 1844. After the case was decided he surveyed and marked the boundary line between the two states.
He died Oct. 28, 1856, in Fall River, Mass.