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Scott, the answer to your question.. Charles E. Birge born 1871 in Algona, Iowa m. Nettie Wilkins and he died 22 Nov 1942 in Scarsdale, NY. He is the son of Charles E. Birge and Harriet Imogene Starin. Charles E. Birge b. abt. 1845 in Whitewater Twp., Walworth Co., WI. He is the son of Leander Birge (1814 Hebron, CT) and Frances Ostrander..
(William, Ezekiel, Jonathan, Daniel, Daniel, Richard)
Below is is bio..
Jerry
Source: Albert Clayton Beckwith, "History of Walworth County, Wisconsin", (Volume I & II, 1912, B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana), page 1213, H. Imogene, who married Charles Birge, the son of Leander Birge, a pioneer of Walworth County, Wisconsin; Charles Birge is now deceased, leaving one son, Charles E., an architect of New York City and a young man of much promise. The latter's mother is still living at the old homestead in Whitewater.
BIRGE, CHARLES E.
:: An architect, died November 22, 1942, at his home in Scarsdale, New York, aged seventy-one. Born Algona, Iowa; studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Had office in Chicago, Illinois, later in New York.
WWAA IV - 1940-47.
New York Times (New York) dated 21 Nov. 1942:
Scarsdale, N. Y., Nov. 22 - Charles E. Birge, retired architect, who designed the Bankers Trust Company building at Fifty-seventh Street and Madison Avenue, New York, and many other office buildings and private residences in the Metropolitan area, died here today at his home, 20 Oxford Road, after a year's illness that included several strokes. He was born in Algona, Iowa, severty-one years ago. After his graduation from the University of Wisconsin in 1893, Mr. Birge attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and then studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. On his return he engaged in architectural practice in Chicago for a brief period before moving to New York. For many years, until his retirement in 1937, he had a New York office on Thirty-fourth Street near Fifth Avenue.
Many of the Schrafft's stores were designed by Mr. Birge, who also did much work for William Randolph Hearst, both residential and business in character. For two terms he was a trustee of the village of Scarsdale and for a time was acting-Mayor. He was one of the charter members of the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club, now the Westchester Country Club, in Rye.
Mr. Birge was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Birge. His mother, the former Harriet Starin, belonged to a family owning many valuable pieces of property in Westchester, including the Glen Island Casino. No members of his immediate family survive.
24 Nov. 1942 - Interment - Churchyard St. James the Less.
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