Ambassadors to Costa Rica - Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Costa Rica, United States Ambassadors to Costa Rica, Solon Borland (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Costa Rica, United States Ambassadors to Costa Rica, Solon Borland, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, Romualdo Pacheco, Konstantin Umansky, Pedro Alcntara Herrn, Lewis Einstein, List of Ambassadors From the United Kingdom to Costa Rica, Terence Todman, Viron P. Vaky. Excerpt: Solon Borland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Borland was born in Suffolk, Virginia. When he was a youth, his family moved to North Carolina, where he attended preparatory schools. He later studied medicine and opened a practice. He married three times, first in 1831 to Hildah Wright of Virginia, who died in 1837, and with whom he had two sons. He then married Eliza Buck Hart of Memphis, Tennessee in 1839, but she died in 1842, with no offspring. In 1843 following his second wife's death, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he founded the Arkansas Banner, which became an influential newspaper in state-wide Democratic politics. Three years later, he challenged the editor of the rival Arkansas Gazette, a Whig paper, to a duel due to a slander published against Doctor Borland. In 1845 he had met Mary Isabel Melbourne, of Little Rock, with whom he would marry that same year and later have three children. During the Mexican-American War, Borland was commissioned as a major in the Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, serving under Archibald Yell. He served throughout the war, having turned over his newspaper to associates. Borland was taken as a prisoner of war by the Mexican army on January 23, 1847, just south of Saltillo, Coahuila. He escaped, and was discharged when his regiment was disbanded and mustered out in June, but continued in the army as volunteer aide-de-camp to General William J. Worth during the remainder of the campai... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=306869