Holway, A. C.

HOLWAY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/6/2008 at 16:11:54

A. C. Holway

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.245, Valley Twp.)
A. C. Holway, farming, P. O. Avoca, was born in 1845, in Maine, and came to this county in 1870, from Minnesota, where he had lived for about five years previous; his father and mother are living in Pottawattamie County. Mr. Holway was educated in Maine, and has always followed farming. he came here in 1870, and bought forty acres of unimproved land; he now has eighty acres, mostly under cultivation. Mr. Holway was married, in Maine, in 1865, to Lovina Williams; they have one son - Charles L., and two daughters - Anna M. and Laura Ella. Mr. Holway is a member of the A. H. T. A., and his wife of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Holway has one brother and one sister living in this county. He is a Democrat in politics.