OBIT:  Dr. John Robert Holsclaw, 1876, Bullitt Co., KY

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Submitted by: dphill4502@aol.com
Date: 27 Feb 2002
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Dr. Holsclaw Dies
Last of Old Time Practicioners in Bullitt

The death of Dr. John Robert Holsclaw was an epoch in the history of Bullitt County, in that it removed 
from the citizenship of Bullitt County the last of the old time County Doctors.

At the ripe old age of 88 as quietly, peacefully and calmly as a tired child falling to sleep in its mother's 
arms, this fine old gentleman and splendid doctor fell into the cold and somber arms of death.  He had 
lived a long and useful life, had a world of interesting experiences, has seen our state grow from a 
population of [smudge on the microfilm] 000 to a great proud and prosperous state of 3 million, had 
witnessed the construction of the first Rail Road ever built in Kentucky, has seen winding muddy roads 
throughout the state converted into majestic concrete and asphalt highways, has seen our school system 
grow in Bullitt County from a dozen small backwoods schools to a splendid system of consolidated, graded 
and High Schools the equal in many respects of those of our great cities, he had seen the development of 
the great telephone system by and through which we may sit in our cozy parlors and talk to friends all 
over the world, he had been startled and amazed over the invention and development of the air-ships, 
which enables us to fly across the continent within the time he took during his boyhood, to go from 
Bowling Green to Louisville, he had witnessed the marvelous development and general use of the radio, 
through which we may hear in our own homes, the voices of the greatest actors, singers and orators of the 
world and hear on each evening, recited within our hearing the days news of the whole world.

It is further more interesting to note that during the life-time of this venerable doctor, the county 
passed through the crisis of three great wars, the Civil War between the states, the Spanish-American 
War and the Great World War, and that during his life-time the following named Presidents have come and 
gone each of them contributing an important epoch in the country's history, namely, Franklin Pierce, 
James Buckman, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, U. S. Grant, R. B. Hays, James A. Garfield, Chester A. 
Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benj. H. Harrison, Wm. McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren 
G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and that Franklin D. Roosevelt has served one term and part 
of a second and is a prospective candidate for a third term.

It is hard to realize that so many great vital changes have taken place within the life of a single man.