Background
Borden, William A. was born on March 20, 1890 in Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, United States. Son of William Cline and Jennie Ella (Adams) Borden.
engineer consultant army officer
Borden, William A. was born on March 20, 1890 in Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, United States. Son of William Cline and Jennie Ella (Adams) Borden.
Mechanical Engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1912. Graduate Ordnance School of Application, 1917, Army Industrial College, 1925, Army War College, 1933. Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1928.
Commissioned Second lieutenant, CAC, 1912, advanced through grades to brigadier general, 1944. Served as director new developments division War Department, 1944-1946. Member joint commission on new weapons and equipment Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1944-1946.
Member Research Board for National Security, 1945-1946, National Inventors Council, 1945-1946, advising committee Office-Science Research and Development, 1945-1946, military advisory board to officer in charge Atomic Bomb Project, 1945-1946, operating commission on release of science information, 1945-1946. Liaison officer to president Publication Board, 1945-1946, 1946. Chief engineer with Dewey & Almy Chemical Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1946-1948, vice president, engineering, 1948-1955, management and engineering consultant, from 1955.
Director Farrington Manufacturing Company.
Member joint commission on new weapons and equipment Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1944-1946. Member; Member Officers Association, National Geography Society, American Ordnance Association (charter, honorary life. Club: Army and Navy (Washington).
Married Dorothy Adams, October 6, 1917. Children: Dorothy Adams, (Mistress Hugh B. Vickery), Ann Carlin (Mistress Ramon de’Murias), Cynthia Ayres (Mistress Theodore A. Ayers).