Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 924
JONATHAN HOLETON

Jonathan HOLETON, a resident of section 8, in Boyer Township, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, November 4, 1850, and when he was one year old, his parents removed to Illinois, and remained there until 1852, then went to Iowa City, Iowa, at that time the Capitol of the State. But three years later they removed to Harrison County, arriving in Boyer Township in the autumn of 1855.

Our subject remained at home until 1870, when he bought a farm on section 8, which was wild land, upon which he built a log house 14x15 feet, to which he added a frame 10x16 feet in 1876, and another addition in 1884; this building served until 1888, when he built a house 16x30 feet, in one part, and 14x16 feet in another part, and an addition 10x20 feet, the main building being two stories high. He erected a barn in 1886, 16x32 feet. He has added to his original farm, which consisted of forty acres, until he now has a half-section, and ten acres of timber.

Our subject was married November 24, 1870, to Miss Isabel THOMPSON, who was born in Boyer Township, April 13, 1853, and remained with her parents until the time of her marriage. By this marriage nine children were born: Thomas, born in 1871, Grace E. in 1873, Mahlon in 1874, Agnes in 1876, Olive in 1878, Charles W. in 1880, Jonathan R. in 1882, Hannah E. in 1884, and Harry H. in 1890. Of the children, Thomas died August 26, 1871, and Mahlon passed on January 11, 1876.   Politically our subject adheres to the principals of the Republican party, and in his religious convictions he is in sympathy with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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