Henry Dwight Burghardt

1875 - 1949  (73 years)

• Name	Henry Dwight Burghardt
  Birth	26 Jul 1875	Curtisville, Berkshire, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Jul 1949	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
  Person ID	I16166	Scudder
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2005

  
  

  Family	Helen Ruth Scudder,   b. 17 Jun 1877, Massachusetts, United States d. 4 Jul 1950, Monterey, Monterey, California (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1903
  Children	1. Alice Scudder Burghardt,   b. 16 Jul 1905, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 2 Mar 1970, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee (Age 64 years)   2. Karl S. Burghardt,   b. 23 Mar 1913, New Jersey d. 16 Jul 1981, Monterey, Monterey, California (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F5553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  As a small boy Henry played in and around his father's foundry and machine shop. Following his graduation from Stockbridge High School in Massachusetts, he served as a machinist's apprentice at Pratt and Whitney, Pope Manufacturing, and Stanley Manufacturing Company, which later became General Electric. He served as an instructor at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn teaching machime shop practice, and taught at Lehigh University. When Dickerson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey inaugrated a new program in technical education, he was appointed head of the machine shop program. During World War I, he assisted the government and was cited by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker for the work he did in preparing its Manual for Machinests. In 1919, he wrote a two volume text book titled "Machine Tool Operation." This text was widely used for both high school and college courses for over fifty years.