Maricopa-Yavapai County AZ Archives Biographies.....Holland, Thomas 1825 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 517

THOMAS HOLLAND. Among the early settlers of Arizona it is but just to say that
Thomas Holland takes a prominent place, for he has resided in this section for
many years and has always occupied a conspicuous and honorable position. He is
at present proprietor of the Castle Creek Hot Springs, Phoenix, and is a
wide-awake, thorough-going man of affairs. He is a native of Tennessee, born
December 27, 1825, and the son of Jacob Holland, also a native of Tennessee,
born in Cocke County. The mother, Elizabeth (Warren) Holland, was born in Greene
County, Tennessee, and came of old Virginia stock. In 1834 Jacob Holland and
family removed to Linn County, Missouri, resided on a farm there until 1844, and
then removed to Platte County, Missouri, in 1844. Two years later Thomas Holland
enlisted in the Second Missouri Regiment in the Mexican War, under Sterling
Price, served all through the same and was in a number of the most prominent
engagements. Returning to Missouri after the war he remained there one year, and
then went to California, via Ft. Leavenworth to Santa Fe. The company with which
he made the journey branched off and came by the "Cook" route through Southern
Arizona. There were thirty-two in this company and five teams. Mr. Holland was
on the road going to Los Angeles, from May until December, 1849. From there he
proceeded to Mariposa County, California, in February, 1850, and there remained
until 1853, when he moved to Tuolumne County. When he first came to California
he was engaged in freighting from Stockton to Mariposa, but after moving to
Tuolumne County he turned his attention to placer mining for seven years, making
considerable money. In 1860 he went to Virginia City, Nev., and was engaged in
prospecting for some time, but later turned his attention to the wood business,
furnishing wood for the great "Mexican Mill" and mine, and getting from twelve
to twenty dollars per cord. After following this for a year and a half Mr.
Holland sold out and went to Idaho, where he located at Florence, in the great
gold placer mining camp, and there remained a part of the summer. In the latter
part of 1862 he moved to Warren's Diggings, forty-five miles south, and remained
in the vicinity of these two camps for fourteen years, all the time engaged in
mining. In 1876 he came to Prescott, Arizona, and went to the "Peck" Mine, where
he worked four years. In 1880 he went to Mexico, prospecting through Sonora and
Chihuahua and other places, but not meeting with much success he returned to
what is now New Mexico, forty miles south of Deming, at a noted spring called
"Casselero," where he located, took up land and remained two years. Selling out
he then came to what is known as "Castle Creek Hot Springs," Arizona, got a
patent for the land and has remained here since. He had many exciting adventures
with the Indians during his trip across the plains and since, and it is
interesting to hear him relate them.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896

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