Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Holt, Vine 1813 - 1899
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

VINE HOLT.

   Vine Holt was born in Gallatin county, Kentucky, October 13, 1813, and with
his father's family came to Carroll county, Indiana, in the fall of 1825. He was
a son of Col. Ziba Holt, who resided about five miles east of Delphi.

   Mr. Holt, when a young man, helped to build the state Michigan road. He
engaged in the mercantile business in Delphi with Noah B. Dewey in 1840, and
afterwards with Lewis Martin. Later he was associated with his son-in-law, B. T.
Strawbridge in the dry-goods business on the south side of the public square and
subsequently with Mathew Sterling and Howard Sherffey. Mr. Holt was associated
with John Brooksbank in a tannery, also a saddle shop and shoe shop. Mr. Holt
owned several farms situated on the Delphi and Flora road.

   Mr. Holt was a stockholder in the Toledo, Wabash & St. Louis Railroad
Company. He was one of the organizers of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago
Railroad Company. He was a stockholder in this company in the sum of five
thousand dollars. He was full of energy, hopeful and optimistic.

   Vine Holt was twice married. He was married to Edith Phelps, March 9, 1843,
who died on April 22, 1873. He was married, secondly, to Mrs. Martha Applegate,
August 6, 1891, who died on April 30, 1894. He was survived by one brother,
Robert K. Holt, and two grandchildren, Mrs. Dunn and George Strawbridge. Mr.
Holt died on September 10, 1899.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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