Person:Augustus Follin (1)

Research Notes

• known to his family as "Noel"
• married Caroline Reeder, by whom he had a son and a daughter
• When he was 28, he left his wife and children in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to California where he joined the stage troupe of the famous Lola Montez
• "Frank Folland" was his stage name
• supposedly he and Lola Montez were lovers, but some say that he was just her manager. He was on a ship with her, on an Australian tour, when he "disappeared"

1. ↑ Family Recorded.

   "The record of the Leslie woman suffrage commission, inc., 1917-1919," by Rose Young. From the Library of Congress, Historical Collections
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   [tradition is that he was lost at sea while on a voyage around the world with the famous actress Lola Montez, former mistress to old King Ludwig of Bavaria]

2.   Death Recorded, in Seymour, Bruce. Lola Montez
   p 349.

   ... As it was told when the Falkenberg arrived in San Francisco, a lurch of the ship pitched Folland [sic] overboard, and he disappeared. Another report said that he had chosen to sleep on deck and had vanished into the night. Later there were rumors that he had jumped overboard in despair over his endless quarrels with Lola [Montez] ...