Hon. Adolphe Edward Borie and Elizabeth Dundas McKean

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Husband Hon. Adolphe Edward Borie ¹

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           Born: 25 Nov 1809 2
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           Died: 5 Feb 1880 3
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         Father: John J. Borie (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sophia Beauveau (      -      ) 2

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Wife Elizabeth Dundas McKean ¹

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           Born: 3 Mar 1815 - Philadelphia, PA 4
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           Died: 29 Mar 1886 - Philadelphia, PA 3
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         Father: Thomas McKean, Jr. (1779-1852) 1
         Mother: Sarah Clementina Pratt (Abt 1781-1836) 1

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Adolphe Edward Borie

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He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1825, and subsequently took the degree of A. M. He went to France to continue his studies, returning in 1828. After this he entered the counting house of his father, and about 1838 entered into partnership with Mr. McKean as above related. He was Consul for Belgium, November 10, 1843, and about the same time acting consul for Sicily, but the latter does not appear upon the records of the State Department. In 1848, Mr. Borie was elected president of the Bank of Commerce, but relinquished the position in 1860, to take a trip to Europe. He was a director of the National Bank of Commerce, a member of the Board of Trade, a manager of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, and a liberal contributor to various benevolent associations.
He was one of the founders of the Union Club at the beginning of the civil war, which afterwards became the Union League; and the first vice-president in 1862, retaining the position until his death. He was interested in the Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia.
Upon General Grant's accession to the Presidency, he invited Mr. Borie to a seat in his Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, which was accepted. Mr. Borie was nominated and confirmed March 5, and entered upon his duties March 9, 1869. His labors, however, proving too onerous for his age and health, he resigned June 25, 1869, and Mr. Robeson, who was appointed the same day, assumed charge on the 26th.
In 1872, Mr. Borie was a Presidential Elector-at-large from Pennsylvania on the Republican ticket, and cast his vote for General Grant for President; and in 1878, after the expiration of General Grant's term of office, Mr. Borie accompanied him on part of his tour round the world, having joined him in Paris.
Mr. Borie was a gentleman of cultivated tastes, and had collected one of the finest private galleries of paintings in Philadelphia, containing numerous pictures of the modern French and Spanish schools. His collection is described in Lippincott's Magazine (vol. x., 221, Aug., 1872), No. 5 of a series of articles entitled Private Art Collections of Philadelphia. Mr. Borie was a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania since 1858, and a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1872.
He died after a short illness, and was buried from St. Stephen's church. The Union League adopted suitable resolutions, and appropriate honors were paid by the Secretary of the Navy, the Department building being closed on the day of the funeral, and draped in mourning for thirty days thereafter.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1185.

2 Roberdeau Buchanan, Genealogy of the McKean Family of Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing Co., 1890), Pg 192.

3 Roberdeau Buchanan, Genealogy of the McKean Family of Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing Co., 1890), Pg 193.

4 Roberdeau Buchanan, Genealogy of the McKean Family of Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing Co., 1890), Pg 139.