Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Washington Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   CHARLES B. HOLLEY, son of Stephen S. and Esther (Felt) Holley, was 
born, January 5, 1847, in the state of New York.  His father was born
in Rhode Island, his mother in New York.  Charles attended school until
he was about eleven years of age, when his parents removed to Kankakee,
Illinois, where he worked on a farm till he was twenty-one.
   September 22, 1869, he married Ala A. Smith, of the same place.  Five
children were born to them--Willie A., George B., Charles L., Clarence
E. and Oscar W.  He remained on the farm in Illinois until 1874, when he
came to Washington Township, Newton County, and purchased sixty acres of 
land in Section 1; now he has 132 acres as good farm land as there is 
in the township.  His mother died in 1856, his father in 1882.  
   Our subject is a general farmer, and raises some stock.  He and wife
attend church.  In politics, he is a Republican.



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