John Holland Centenarian 1885

HOLLAND

Posted By: Volunteer - Cathy Joynt Labath
Date: 10/17/2007 at 18:49:48

Emmetsburg Democrat; Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa, Wednesday, November 18, 1885

Iowa Centenarians

We occasionally read of persons in some other states who are 100 years old and of rare cases where a still greater age has been reached. Iowa has hitherto laid no particular stress upon the age of her citizens, which she now comes to the front with her list of no less than twenty-five persons who have passed the 100 mile point in the journey of life. Their names and ages have been gathered from the census returns, and are as follows:

... John Holland, Washington township, Van Buren county, 103 years...