The medical profession of Utica finds a worthy and successful young representative in Dr. Roscoe Conkling Borst, who has been engaged in general practice here during the past eleven years. His birth occurred at East Cobleskill, Schoharie county, New York, on the 16th of September, 1888, his parents being Dow V. and Lucy Borst of that place. He attended. the grades in Poughkeepsie, New York, and high school of Cobleskill in the acquirement of an education, and then in preparation for a professional career he matriculated in the medical department of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1911. Dr. Borst spent the two succeeding years as an interne in the Lincoln Hospital of New York city and in 1913 began the work of his chosen calling in Utica, where he has remained to the present time and has been accorded a practice that well attests his skill in the field of medical science. He filled the position of assistant health officer from 1913 until 1919 and during the closing months of the latter year served as health officer. Dr. Borst is a member of the staff of St. Luke's Hospital. He is keenly interested in anything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery we call life and he has kept in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress through his membership in the Oneida County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
On the 17th of June, 1916, Dr. Borst was united in marriage to Miss Grace Becker, daughter of John R. Becker of Cobleskill, New York. Dr. and Mrs. Borst have a son: John Roscoe Borst, who was born on October 26, 1918. Politically the Doctor is a democrat, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Odd Fellows. He is also a member of the City Club, the University Club and the Cornell Club and enjoys high standing in both social and professional circles of his adopted city.