Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Holderman, Abraham Sr 1822 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Abraham Holderman, Sr., Seneca. The subject of this sketch, Abraham Holderman, 
is a son of Abraham and Charlotte Holderman, who came to what is now Grundy 
County in the fall of 1831, the year before the Black Hawk war. Subject was 
then nine years old, being born in Ross County, Ohio, January 22, 1822. At the 
time of his first recollection of this county there were but two houses 
between the Holderman Grove and Chicago, and no house from them to 
Bloomington. Went to mill over thirty miles. Nearest trading point was 
Chicago. Their first school was taught in the winter of 1834, obtaining a 
teacher for $10 per month. At this time there was not a sawed board nor a nail 
in any of their buildings. Some years they lost all their hay and grain from 
prairie fires. Subject was married in Grundy May 4, 1847, to Miss Mary E. 
Hoge, daughter of William and Rachael Hoge. She was born in Loudoun County, 
Va., August 17, 1827, and came with her parents to this county the fall of 
1831. They were the first family in the county. Her brother James Hoge being 
the first white child born in the county. Subject has a family of eight 
children, three of whom are dead - William Holderman, born July 3, 1848; 
Joseph, February 11, 1850, and Hendley, December 11, 1851, all deceased; Abram 
J. Holderman, whose biography appears on another page; Albert H. Holderman, 
April 19, 1856; Martha J. Holderman, born March 16, 1858; Landy S. Holderman, 
born November 8, 1859, and Samuel D. Holderman, born July 21, 1865. Mr. 
Holderman now owns about 5,000 acres of land, principally in one body, besides 
giving his children 2,000 acres. Engaged in farming and stock-raising. 
Politics, Republican; seventy-three voters in the township when organized, 
seventy-one of whom were Irish canal hands; subject being the only one left in 
the township.

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

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