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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Garland County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Augustine W. Borland, whose prominence as a business man has become widely established, deals in groceries, also grain, produce, hay, etc., in Hot Springs. His place is situated on Central Avenue, and he first established his business in 1879, starting in with but very little capital. He now owns a stock worth $4,000, and has a large trade, besides two good business blocks and two other valuable lots. Mr. Borland is an active, straightforward and honest business man, whose word is as good as his bond, and he is quoted as an authority in commercial circles. He first commenced in life as a farm hand, and has gained his present substantial position in the world by strict attention to business and natural ability for it. He was born in Randolph County, Ga., in 1854, and is a son of Quintillion and Rachel (Stevenson) Borland. When Augustine was three years old the parents moved to Dale County, Ala., where the mother died in 1874. The father was a soldier in the Confederate army, and was killed during the Seven Days’ battle in Virginia. Ten sons and four daughters were born to the parents, of whom seven sons are living and three dead; all of the daughters are yet living. Besides being in the army himself, the father had three brothers and four sons who also served under the Confederate flag. One of the surviving sons, Judge E. J. Borland, was judge of the probate court at Geneva County, Ala., for a great many years. Augustine W. Borland was reared on his parents’ farm and educated in the common country schools, receiving most of his education after attaining his maturity. When twenty-two years of age he came to Hot Springs and worked as a farm hand, and later on clerked in a country store for a few years. He afterward established himself in the grocery business on a small scale at Hot Springs, which he increased as time went by, until it has assumed its present proportions, giving an evidence of the pluck and enterprise characteristic of Mr. Borland’s nature. He is now one of the leading merchants and most popular citizens of Hot Springs. In politics Mr. Borland is a stanch Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Tilden, in 1876.

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