Talk:William Whiting Borden

message: I edited paragraph three of the section "life and work". I removed a couple interpretive comments, and some unsourced contradictory statements and restructured a few things to improve the grammar and flow. It might need a little more polishing as I avoided making any major changes. It's also still sorely lacking in citation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.209.151 (talk) 02:01, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Made Minor Changes 

message: Quote: "Borden was converted to Christianity under the ministry of Dwight L. Moody." - But what was he before he became a christian?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.173.224.105 (talk) 09:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently he was converted as a child of 7, although he had been part of a churchgoing family all of his life. I guess you could say "unregenerate", but I wouldn't go so far as to say he was a "profligate". Does that help?Brian0324 (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was Borden before he turned christian? 

message: I would be really interested to know the primary source for the writing in Borden's Bible.  I have read elsewhere (Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions 1998) that the writing was on a crumpled piece of paper.  And yet the common story somehow has it written in a Bible - and apparently dated?
An example of the alternate (of course, both could be true!) story here:  Borden of Yale  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.215.191.48 (talk) 01:17, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bible 

message: Newspaper articles from his day that mention him:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1912/09/21/page/1/article/young-millionaire-renounces-world-to-be-missionary
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1913/03/30/page/11/article/death-near-for-rich-missionary
Death
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1913-04-10/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1913&index=13&rows=20&words=Borden+William&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1913&proxtext=william+borden&y=12&x=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
Newspaper that outlines terms of his will
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1913/04/26/page/1/article/william-w-borden-wills-his-million-to-religious-work
Other links of interest:
His father's death in 1906
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1906/04/11/page/4/article/apoplexy-fatal-to-william-borden
His grandfather's death in 1918
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1918/01/30/page/17/article/john-borden-the-elder-is-dead-was-a-pioneer
Links re: brother John
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1952/07/28/page/7/article/granddad-of-3-stevensons-to-vote-for-g-o-p
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1924/12/13/page/1/article/john-bordens-wife-granted-divorce-decree
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1959/02/27/page/6/article/suit-to-regain-borden-home-is-dismissed
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1906&dat=19610722&id=accfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vtgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5387,3667744&hl=en
Links re: Neice Ellen Borden Stevenson
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19520821&id=ElRIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YQAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5208,2035893&hl=en  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.23.244.173 (talk) 22:43, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some suggested citations