Tipton-Hamilton County IN Archives Biographies.....Holloway, James 1831 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   JAMES HOLLOWAY, leading farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Hamilton County,
Ind., December 25, 1831, the third of eight children born to Ebenezer and Ann
(Justice) Holloway, both natives of Indiana. His father removed early to Ohio,
and in 1830 located in Hamilton County, where he made a good home and died in
1866, at the age of seventy-eight. Mrs. Holloway still resides on the home farm,
where she has lived fifty years. Our subject received a limited education in the
pioneer schools, and at the age of twenty-one began work as a farm hand, and in
four years saved $500, with which he purchased forty acres in Liberty Township,
moving upon it in the spring of 1856. Two years later, he sold this land and
purchased 110 acres of his present home; to this he has added and also improved;
he now has 230 acres of good land, with commodious buildings. Mr. Holloway was
married in 1865 to Miss Jane Pennington, of Morgan County, Ind. Two children
bless this union -Ada and Josie. Mr. Holloway enlisted in 1862 in Company B,
Seventy-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which formed a part of the
Fourteenth Army Corps of the Cumberland, which participated in the battles of
Hartsville, Ky., Stone River, Murfreesboro, Hoover's Gap, Chattanooga,
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Ga., and with Sherman on his historic
"march to the sea." At the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, he received a flesh wound
from a minie ball, which sent him to the hospital at Ringgold for three months.
Mr. Holloway was a brave soldier; he is identified with the Democratic party,
and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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