He was born Granville Oral Roberts on January 24, 1918, in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, near Bebee. David Edwin Harrell, Jr., in his book Oral Roberts: An American Life, called his birth âthe most portentous event in the Roberts family history.â He was the third and last child of Ellis and Claudius Roberts, born on the farm of his grandfather, Pleasant Roberts.
Solon is a town in Cortland County, New York, United States. The town had a total population of 1,079 as of the 2010 census.[3] The name of the town comes from the Greek lawmaker Solon.
In 1877 the residents, more than 150 strong, signed a petition requesting the organization of Callahan County. At the election of July 3, 1877, Callahan City became the first county seat, a position the town retained only until the election of October 13, 1877, when Belle Plain was voted in as the new county seat.