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JOHN R. BORLAND, physician, son of Huston and Eleanor Borland, was born in New Vernon township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1828, and was educated in the common schools. He read medicine with Doctor J. R. Andrews, a Reformed physician of New Vernon, Pennsylvania, and commenced practice at Harlansburg, Pennsylvania, in 1851. He graduated in the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865. He was dean of the faculty and filled the chair of theory and practice, and lecturer on clinical medicine in the Georgia Eclectic Medical College in 1879-80, and graduated from that institution in the latter year. He is a member of the district, state, and national Eclectic medical societies, a contributor to medical journals, and is recognized as a good physician. He has served three years on the Franklin board of health, and two years as physician of the county jail. On the 29th of June, 1852, he married Elizabeth Emery, of Harlansburg, Pennsylvania, born January 21, 1834. They have had nine children. The survivors are Isaac Huston, carriage manufacturer of Franklin; James Brown, publisher of the Evening News; Mary Jane; Nettie Mollie, and Charles Emery. Those dead are Emma Josephine, Laura Ellen, Nannie Malinda, and Luella. Doctor Borland is a man of extensive reading and well informed, not only in his profession but also on all the ordinary topics of life. Liberal in his professional and religious views he is opposed to proscription in either. Though formerly a Republican in politics, he has acted with the Prohibition party for some years, and has been successively nominated by that party for assembly, state senate, and congress, each time leading his party vote.
History of Venango County, Pennsylvania
: its past and present, including its aboriginal history, the French and
British occupation of the country, its early settlement and subsequent
growth, a description of its historic and interesting localities, its rich
oil deposits and their development, sketches of its cities, boroughs,
townships, and villages, neighborhood and family history, portraits and
biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc.,
etc.
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