Dr. John R. Borland and Elizabeth Emery

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Husband Dr. John R. Borland ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 15 Mar 1828 - New Vernon Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1 2 5
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           Died: 26 Dec 1916 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 6
         Buried: 29 Dec 1916 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 7

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         Father: Houston Borland (1803-1866) 2
         Mother: Eleanor B. Holloway (1804-Bef 1919) 1 2 5

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       Marriage: 29 Jun 1852 - Harlansburg, Lawrence Co, PA 1 8

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Wife Elizabeth Emery ^{1 8}

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           Born: 21 Jan 1834 8
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           Died: 27 Mar 1907 8
         Buried: 29 Mar 1907 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 7

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         Father: Isaac Emery (      -      ) 1 8
         Mother: Nancy Gillespie (      -      ) 8

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Children

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1 M Isaac Huston Borland ^{8 9}

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           Born: 14 Sep 1859 - Harlansburg, Lawrence Co, PA 8 9
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         Buried: 22 Nov 1909 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 10

         Spouse: Anna J. Cummings (      -      ) 8 9
           Marr: 1888 - ? Venango Co, PA 9

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2 M James Brown Borland ⁸

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           Born: 7 Dec 1861 - Harlansburg, Lawrence Co, PA 8
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         Spouse: Genevieve M. Murrin (      -1916) 11 12
           Marr: 5 Sep 1900 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 11

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3 F Mary Jane Borland ⁸

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4 F Nettie Borland ⁸

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5 M Charles Emery Borland ⁸

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6 F Emma Josephine Borland ⁸

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7 F Laura Ellen Borland ⁸

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8 F Nannie Malinda Borland ⁸

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9 F Luella Borland ⁸

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John R. Borland

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He remained on his father's farm until of age, and meantime was allowed the ordinary advantages for education which the local common schools could give. He early manifested a taste for study, and began to read medical textbooks as early as his sixteenth year, later reading medicine regularly with Dr. J. R. Andrews, of New Vernon, Mercer County, PA, a physician of the Reformed school, for nearly three years, and beginning practice in July, 1851, at Harlansburg, Lawrence Co., Pa. There he followed his profession for thirteen years, mean­time continuing his studies and graduating at the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865, in which year he formed a partnership with Dr. Isaac St. Clair and became established at Franklin, Venango County. When the Northwestern Eclectic Medical Association was formed in that part of Penn­sylvania, Dr. Borland was one of its most active members, and in 1873 he united with the National Eclectic Medical Association at Boston. He was also a member of the State Eclectic Medical Society. The Reform Medi­cal College of Georgia, which had a brilliant career, had been obliged to suspend during the war. It was subsequently reestablished as an Eclectic College, and in 1879 Dr. Borland was chosen for the chair of theory and practice of medicine, accepting the appointment, which he filled during 1879-80, being also lecturer on clinical medicine, and the faculty added to his honors as well as responsibility by electing him dean. The institution, coming thus under his direction, immediately gave promise of greater prosperity, and being an admirable teacher, with qualities which won the high personal regard of the students, he was urged to continue his work there. But the emoluments of the College chair would not support his household, and on that account he could not afford to sacrifice the business which he had estab­lished at Franklin, where he resumed practice upon severing his relations with the College. He himself was a graduate of the institution in 1880.
Dr. Borland always took a leading part in local religious, temperance and social work besides attending to the demands of a very wide practice, and his three years of service as mem­ber of the Franklin board of health, and two years as county physician, might well be classed as social work for the community. He always felt very strongly on the subject of temper­ance, and changed from the Republican to the Prohibition Party in 1872, when the State Legislature repealed the local option law. He felt that it was time for every advocate of prohibition to declare himself openly in its favor. He was repeatedly nominated by the party for important positions, for the assembly in 1880, State Senate in 1882 and Congress in 1884, in the latter year polling twelve hundred votes, the largest number ever given to a Prohibition candidate in the district. A few years before his death his neighbors described Dr. Borland not so much as old, but as eighty-four years young, “the youngest old man in the city.” He walked the streets, case in hand, with not a limp, nor a bend, nor a gesture, to indicate decline in life. He gave the same close attention to practice at the office as in the city, and was frequently called to go long distances to consultations. He contributed considerably to medical journals. [CAB, 437]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 497.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1108.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 816.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 113, 436.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 436.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 113, 437.

7 Franklin Cemetery - Record of Interments (Franklin, PA.).

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 437.

9 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 836.

10 Franklin Cemetery - Record of Interments (Franklin, PA.), Pg 84.

11 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 438.

12 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 254.