William Borah state of Idaho in 1947, stands in the National Statuary Hall Collection. William Edgar Borah was born in Jasper Township, Illinois, near Fairfield in Wayne County. His parents were farmers Elizabeth (West) and William Nathan Borah. Borah was distantly related to Katharina von Bora, the Catholic nun who left her convent in the 16th century and married reformer Martin Luther. His Borah ancestors came to America in about 1760, fought in the Revolutionary War, and moved west with the frontier. The young William E. Borah was the seventh of ten children, and the third son. Although Borah was not a
Nun Nicer sent to race in Germany and stepped up in distance for the Preis von Donausschingen over eleven furlongs at Cologne. She started the odds-on favourite and won easily, earning a prize of approximately £1,250 and gold cup presented by Prince Furstenberg. Nun Nicer was retired from racing to become a broodmare. She was exported to Germany in 1904 with her colt but returned in 1906. Her reported foals included: Nun Nicer did not produce a living foal after 1910 and died in 1915. Nun Nicer Nun Nicer (1895–1915) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a two-year-old in 1897