Holmes, James W.

HOLMES

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/31/2008 at 13:53:29

James W. Holmes

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.233, Silver Creek Twp.)
James W. Holmes, farmer, P. O. Silver City, Mills, Co., Iowa. Mr. Holmes was born and raised in Tazewell County, Ill., born 1842. In 1856, his father moved to Page County, Iowa, but is now living in Council Bluffs. In 1861, Mr. Holmes went to California, and remained there for seven years. By trade he is a carpenter, and learned his trade by working with his father. While in California he was mining, and also following his trade. In coming back to Page County from California, he went the longest way round, going to South America, England, Scotland and Ireland, and back through Canada to the United States, having been more than a year on the trip. He was married, in Page County, January, 1870, to Miss Millie Worthington, who was born in Pennsylvania. They have four children, all boys. He has always been Democratic in politics. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity, joining that society in Oregon when twenty-one years old. His farming is principally raising corn and feeding to hogs. Mr. Holmes has been in Pottawattamie County for twelve years, and has been in this township ever since, and now there are only seven or eight families in this township that were living here when he came. Mr. Holmes has seen more of the world than most men of his age, and his own experience would make a volume in itself. His farm consists of 120 acres.