UNITED STATES SENATOR SOLON BORLAND & FAMILY

 

Compiled by William (Bill) Samuel Boggess, starting in 2003, last revised 05/04/2012


NOTE: My WebSite links will continue fifty years beyond my demise.

a)- http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/INTRODUCTION

b)- Chapter 1:
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/Chapter1PARENTS

c)- Chapter 2:

    1)-      birth & documentations
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/ANARKANSASPIONEER

   2)-   (1820-1846) life till mexican war,
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/DOCTORSOLONBORLAND    

   3)- (1846-1847) mexican war
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/MAJORSOLONBORLAND    

   4)-   (1847-1853) mex war to nicaragua,
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/EDITORSOLONBORLAND    

   5)-   (1853-1854) nicaragua
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/MINSTERSOLONBORLAND    

   6)-   (1854-1861) nicaragua to civil war
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/SOLONBORLAND1811VA    

   7)-   (1861-1862) civil war
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/COLONELSOLONBORLAND     

  8)-   (1862-1854) civil war to death
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/RETIREDSOLONBORLAND

d)- Chapter 3:
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/Chapter3Children

e)- Chapter 4:
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/Chapter4EUCLID

f)- Chapter 5:
http://community.webtv.net/billboggess-gray/Chapter5Roscius



          COINAGE OF THE DAY



HALF CENT


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Minted two years before his birth ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

HALF DOLLAR


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Minted the year before his birth ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

HALF DOLLAR


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Minted year before move to Memphis ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

$1 DOLLAR GOLD


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Minted year he went to Nicaragua ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

HALF DOLLAR


Minted year he was Commander of CSA, Upper Arkansas District

INDIAN HEAD PENNY


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Minted year of Solon's death ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~


      Daughter's Tribute

   POEM - "At My Father's Feet"
http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/shelby/newspapers/atmyfath3nw.txt

~~~ This is my working hypothesis - the way I understand it as of 08/15/10! ~~~



http://files.usgwarchives.org/ar/state/bios/borlands.txt

http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/benton/bios/borland6bs.txt



~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "SOLON BORLAND & FAMILY", ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a two-hundred page booklet with text, pictures, obituaries, gravestones, etc, NOW CORRECTED BY LATER URLs & WITH THIS WEB-PAGE, filed June 2006 with following:

~ ~ ARKANSAS MUSEUMS; Butler Center of Arkansas Studies, Old State House Museum, Arkansas History Commission, Shilo Museum, ~ ~ COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Arkansas, Louisville, Tulane, William & Mary, ~ ~ HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL GROUPS; Suffolk-Nansemond Historical Society, Pulaski County (AR) Historical Society, Murfreesboro (NC) Historical Association, ~ ~ LIBRARIES; Fayetteville, AR, New Orleans, LA, Memphis,TN, both Norfolk & Portsmouth, VA and Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , VA

September 2010. updated with Find-A-Grave links, print copy with CD to Butler Center of Arkansas studies.

September 2011, again updated wth links to Encyclopdeia of Arkansas enteries, print and CD copies to Butler Center of Arkansas Studies and Special Collection at University of Arkansas.

Senator Solon Borland, M.D., D-Ark

1850 Brady dag - from Library of Congress Digital ID: dag 3c09949


      Fourth Arkansas U S Senator 1848-1853

                U S Minister to Nicaragua 1853-1854

                        Major USA - Colonel CSA



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http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/media-detail.aspx?mediaID=5935

MOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY, LITTLE ROCK created year Solon arrived in Little Rock, 1843


Wife Mary Isabel, sons Thomas & George Godwin buried here without stones.



   The Arkansas Bar Foundation and Pulaski County Bar Association, Law Day 1992 dedicated:

              "...a monument [cenotaph] for Solon Borland, early prominent lawyer in Arkansas History ..."

      Borland family papers:


http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/vivadoc.pl?file=viw00044.xml
 

~ ~ ~ ~ DOCTOR SOLON BORLAND, M.D. ~ ~ ~ ~


partially correct biography includes incorrect dates and names concerning Solon's life by Encyclopedia of Arkansas ..... Solon BORLAND (8/26/11)

orchestrating creation of Dallas County Arkansas, January ...

www.arkansasties.com/People/Borland,Solon.htm

also earlier:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/Borland.htm


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THAT MAN NAMED SOLON ~ ~ ~ ~ ~


http://www.argenweb.net/washington/pics/solon.html

Solon left Little Rock with daughters for Princeton, shortly after 4 March 1863!


MEXICAN WAR:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/history/borland-solon-2.txt


NICARAGUA:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/history/borland-solon.txt

CIVIL WAR:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/history/borlands.txt



also earlier:
www.argenweb.net/pulaski/Solon.Borland.html

      hulda
http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/shelby/obits/w/wrightbo4ob.txt

      eliz & solon
http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/shelby/vitals/marriages/hart3mr.txt

      mary&solon
http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/shelby/vitals/marriages/melbourn4mr.txt

      mary
http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/shelby/obits/m/melbourn5ob.txt

      civil war history
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ar/pulaski/history/borlands.txt

     letters
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/letters/borland21.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/letters/borland23.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/letters/borland24.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/newspapers/first01.txt (school plan)

            will
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/wills/borlnd01.txt

          cenotaph, Mount Holly cemetery
www.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/images/borland.html
www.usgwarchives.org/ar/cemph/pulaskiph.htm





~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SOLON's PARENTS ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Dr. Thomas Wood Borland, 64.34.4


Attributed to James (1751ENG-1811NY) and son Felix Sharples (1786-1830)

1809 -- Chalk/Paper 10 x 8 inches

Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , VA
245 West Olney Road , Norfolk , VA 23510


HARRIOTT GODWIN, 64.34.3


http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland1.txt

http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/wills/borlandm22wl.txt

SOLON's MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS (1809)

Attributed to James (1751ENG-1811NY) and son
Felix Sharples (1786-1830)

1809 -- Chalk/Paper 10 x 8 inches

Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , VA
245 West Olney Road , Norfolk , VA 23510

~ ~ ~ ~ SOLON's KNOWN CHILDREN



     thomas
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland15.txt

pic from USMA


      harold (little solon)
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland19.txt
www.argenweb.net/washington/misc/obits/bormajharold.html

        harold's exchange:
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland20.txt
www.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/images/haroldborland2.jpg
www.geocities.com/coh41/FtWarren.html


        george godwin
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland16.txt


        fanny green
www.arkansasties.com/People/Borland,Fannie.htm
www.argenweb.net/washington/misc/obits/mooresmrfb.html


        mary melbourne
www.arkansasties.com/People/Borland,Mary.htm
http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/shelby/obits/g/graybeat8ob.txt

SOLON's BROTHERS (1809)


Attributed to James (1751ENG-1811NY) and son
Felix Sharples (1786-1830)

1809 -- Chalk/Paper 10 x 8 inches

Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , VA
245 West Olney Road , Norfolk , VA 23510

~ ~ ~ ~ SOLON's BROTHERS & NEPHEWS


    solon's brother roscius cicero
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland5.txt
 

SOLON's NEPHEWS


   thomas roscius
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland10.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/obits/borland8ob.txt

      caroline (carrie) barney, obit
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/obits/borlandb9ob.txt

      betsy (elizabeth) king, obit
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/obits/borland11ob.txt

      mary c, obit
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/obits/borlandmc.txt

      charles barney, bios
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/bios/borland7bs.txt

      cornelia mcblair, obit
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/obits/borlandm10ob.txt


        ~ ~ ~ ~ solon's brother euclid sr
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland4.txt
www.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/photos/tombstones/ramsey/borland795gph.jpg

      testimony of dec 26 1862
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland22.txt

        euclid, jr, general
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/hertford/bios/borland9.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/norfolkcity/obits/borland7ob.txt


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