Historical marker honoring Lincoln Borglum unveiled in Beeville (South Texas News, 2016)

Source: https://www.southtexasnews.com/archives/historical-marker-honoring-lincoln-borglum-unveiled/article_fe1ff6c2-20de-51da-9eee-449879e529f2.html Ingested: 2026-07-26 (WebFetch extraction)

Evidentiary note for this wiki: this is the Beeville–Borglum connection the record actually supports. Smith (1989) placed Gutzon Borglum “residing in nearby Beeville” on the Three Rivers Glass design staff ca. 1930; the Borglum whom Beeville itself commemorates is his son Lincoln. Wikipedia’s Lincoln Borglum article (consulted alongside, not ingested) dates the marriage to Louella Jones to 1938 and the permanent Beeville settlement to 1951 — both after the glass factory era.

Marker and family

• Texas Historical Marker unveiled October 28, 2016 at Beeville City Hall for James Lincoln de la Mothe Borglum.
• Son of Gutzon Borglum; assisted his father sculpting Mount Rushmore and completed the monument after Gutzon’s death in 1941. Former banker Burt Hause: “Gutzon was the thinker; Lincoln was the doer.”
• Married Louella Jones, descendant of Captain A. C. Jones, one of Bee County’s earliest settlers. Children Robin and James attended the 2016 dedication.

Lincoln Borglum in Beeville

Settled in Beeville and became a civic fixture: city council member and mayor pro tem; Beeville Rotary Club president; director of the South Texas Hereford Association, Bee County Farm Bureau, and Bee County Library Board; elected a Texas Historical Foundation director in 1956. Sculpted religious works (St. Francis at St. Peter’s Episcopal, Rockport; Our Lady of Loreto at Presidio La Bahía, Goliad); wrote three books on his father and Rushmore; invented a mesquite-charcoal kiln.