Biography of Edward T. Borman, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames listed: Borman, Linzenbard, Dupel, Rea

An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago.
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Transcribed by: W. David Samuelsen
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EDWARD T. BORMAN

Mr. Borman is a native of Saxony, Germany, born August 15, 1831, the son of 
Fred and Augusta (Linzenbard) Borman. He received the public school training 
usually given to the German youth, then turned his attention to printing, a 
handicraft which he followed much of the time for the half decade succeeding 
his sixteenth year. When twenty-one years of age he put into execution a 
determination to enjoy the advantages of the new world, so emigrated to the 
United States. Locating first in the city of Boston, he there learned the 
trade of the shoemaker, a handicraft which he afterward followed for three 
years in chicago. In 1857 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri. He took a claim 
in Shawnee county, Kansas, where he was during the John Brown raid and the 
other slavery difficulties. He was himself a pronounced free state man, but 
being peaceably disposed, he preferred to emigrate rather than take part in 
the troubles, so set out with ox teams for California. At Red Bluffs he 
followed his trade for a period of six years, and at the time of the mining 
excitement in Idaho in 1864, he came north to Silver City, where for another 
period of six years he busied himself in shoemaking. He then devoted a half 
decade to the hotel business and mining, thereafter coming to Baker City, 
where he has mined almost continuiously since, though for a time he was in 
the general merchandise business at Virtue. He has a fine home and eighty 
acres of land, one mile southeast from Baker City, where his home now is, 
and where he is spending the remainder of his days in peace and quiet, 
though he is still active in mining ventures.

Mr. Borman has been in the Masonic order since 1867. His marriage was solemnized 
in 1853, when Miss Christina, daughter of William Dupel, became his wife, and 
they have had three children, namely; Clara E., deceased, Edward W., of Baker City, 
and George W., who married Miss Maggie Rea, also a resident of Baker City.
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