Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Holder, Henry 1839 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Henry Holder, farmer, P. O. Verona, is a son of Henry and Sarah Holder, born 
March 24, 1839, in Manchester, England. His parents emigrated to the United 
States in 1848, and settled in Pittsburgh, Penn., where they remained two and 
a half years, then removed to Illinois, and located in Kendall County, near 
Plattville, where they lived until they came to Grundy County in 1862. His 
mother died in Mazon Township February 13, 1866, and his father in February, 
1877; both are buried in the Ward Cemetery. Our subject was educated in the 
common schools of Pennsylvania and England. He now owns a farm of 160 acres of 
land in Section 19, Mazon Township, valued at $50 per acre, his residence 
being located two miles west from Mazon. He has a younger brother, William, 
who was a soldier from Will County, Ill., in the late war. Mr. Holder is 
Independent in politics.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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