Shelby County TN Archives Biographies.....BORLAND, Solon August 8, 1811 - January 1, 1864
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Bill Boggess william-boggess@webtv.net February 2, 2006, 9:17 pm

Author: Bill Boggess

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Solon Borland, M D, moved to Memphis winter 1836 and spent about half his life in
Memphis, other half in Arkansas where he became among other things, a U S Senator
1848-1853. 

   "The Western World was published [established in 1839 by Solon] by Solon Borland,
afterward for many years the United States senator from Arkansas.  The full name of
this paper was the Western World and Memphis Banner of the Constitution.  In 1840
the paper was purchased by Col. Henry Van Pelt and its name changed to the Appeal,
the first number of which appeared April 21, 1841, and was dressed in mourning on
account of the distinguished President of the United States, William Henry
Harrison." 

It is with interest we found the Appeal edited by General Albert Pike in 1867, while
Solon's daughter Fanny, an accomplished poet, was in school and the
belle-of-the-ball, with his Pike's two daughters in Memphis & Little Rock according
to Gen. John M. Harrell's 1894 comment in Confederate Veterans publication. 

See "The Daily Memphis Avalanche", 24 Aug 1879, front page obituary of Fanny's
Yellow Fever death.

The booklet, "That Man Named Solon", with exhibits, pictures, etc was filed with
Memphis Public Library & Information Center, April 2005, via its Foundation for said
library, and June 2004 with The Tennessee Genealogical Society, Brunswick, TN.

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