Description

C.L. Berger & Sons was a surveying instrument manufacturing company in Boston, Massachusetts founded in 1898 by Christian Louis Berger (1842-1922). Berger, who was born in Germany, apprenticed under the optical instrument maker Christian Seeger and worked for various instrument makers in Germany and England before moving to the United States in 1866. After working for various Boston-based optical and surveying instrument makers in the 1870s, 80s, and 90s, he founded C.L. Berger & Sons with his two sons, William A. Berger (1876-1963) and Louis H. Berger (1878-1965). The company, which was based in Boston and later Roxbury, specialized in engineering and surveying equipment. After Christian Berger’s death in 1922, his two sons ran the business until 1947, when it was sold to Charles S. Narins.