HOLMES, R.T.

HOLMES, HANES

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 08:29:24

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 806

HOLMES, R.T.--Farmer, section 35, P.O. Victor. Was born June 16, 1821, in Albany county, New York, where, after completing his education, he learned the harness-maker's trade and worked at the same two years, then engaged in farming till 1854, when he moved to Knox county, Illinois, and remained there till the spring of 1865, when, with his family, he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns eighty acres of well improved land. Mr. Holmes was married July 16, 1843, in Albany county, New York, to Miss Mary N. Hanes, born there September 14, 1826. They have had three children: David H. (born July 16, 1844; served three years in the late war, being in the Western army, now married, and lives in Iowa county), Anthony A. (born May 23, 1852), Annie Gusta (born May 20, 1855; died in August, 1856). John Holmes, father of R.T., was born in 1817, and died in Albany county, New York, in 1857. R.T.'s mother died in 1863, aged 72.