Holland, W. C.

HOLLAND

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 16:23:46

W. C. Holland

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.30, Council Bluffs)
W. C. Holland, livery, Council Bluffs, was born in Ohio in 1837, and lived in that State till he was nineteen years of age. His parents raised a family of ten children, every one of whom are living and married. His mother is also living in Conway, Taylor County, this State. His father died in the latter place, in May, 1882. Our subject came to Council Bluffs April 6, 1881. He keeps eight head of horses in his livery beside having fourteen boarders. he had formerly lived twenty-two years in Henry County, Iowa, and afterward a short time in Woodbine, Harrison County, this State. He was married in Henry County, this State, in 1858, to Miss Mary J. Conklin. They have two children - Alta, aged eighteen years, and Clarence, who is nine years old. On January 1, 1878, there was a grand re-union at the house of our subject's parents. The ten children were all there to take dinner with their father and mother, making it an occasion long to be remembered.