Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 510
WILLIAM G. HOLMAN

William G. HOLMAN, a farmer located on section 8, of Allen Township, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1871, and located in Washington Township, near Persia. He rented land one year, then went to Nebraska and worked on the railroad at grading for one year, after which he went to Shelby County, Iowa, and worked partly by the month and also leased land there. After three years he moved to Pottawattamie County, where he bought a farm and remained three years, at the end of which time he engaged in the ditching business in Mills County. After one season he went to work on the Rock Island Railroad near Carson, but after two months he went to Nebraska and remained a short time, he returned to Carroll, Iowa, where he worked for the railroad again and followed railroading for three years at Des Moines and other points. He returned to Harrison County in 1882. He went to buying stock at Persia, for Mr. COLLINS, and the following spring rented land near Persia, for three years, then leased land of the Milwaukee Town Site Company, at Yorkshire, and remained in that vicinity about two years. We next find him on FRANKLIN's farm where he remained two years, leased land of another party for one year and then bought the place he now occupies, which consists of one hundred and sixty acres of partly improved land, to which he has added many substantial improvements.

He was born July 17, 1839, in Missouri. He is the son of Joseph and Mary HOLMAN. The father was a native of Kentucky and the mother of Maryland. They reared a family of fourteen children--William Granville, Martha J., Rebecca, (deceased), George M., (deceased), Amelia, (deceased), Amanda, Sarah, James C., John W., Henrietta, (deceased), Charles M., (deceased), McKendry J., (deceased), Mary E., (deceased), Emma, (deceased).

Our subject was united in marriage, September 24, 1869, to Almedia GRAYBILL, the daughter of David and Mahala GRAYBILL, natives of North Carolina and Ohio, respectively. The children of her father's family--Almedia, Meredith, Mary Ann, (deceased), William D., (deceased), David M., Amanda, (deceased). The three children who still survive live in Harrison County.

Our subject and his wife are the parents of eight children, born and named as follows: Alvin E. and Granville E., (twins) July 17, 1870; George E., January 13, 1872; Howard, February 28, 1873; Lorena, May 25, 1874; Mary, October 15, 1877; Amanda, December 17, 1878; and Bertha, May 6, 1879.

Our subject is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in his political choice he votes with the Democratic party.

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