BIO:  PITMAN, HOLLAND F. & WILLIAM C.  - WOODFORD CO. KY

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HOLLAND F. PITMAN, farmer and stock-grower, is a native of Indian Creek
Township, Lawrence Co., Ind., born in 1833, son of HOLLAND and ELIZABETH
(MCNEAL) PITMAN, of German-Irish origin, and is the ninth in a numerous
family.  His father was born in WOODFORD COUNTY, KY., in 1793, and his
mother in the same county, but four years later.  The parents of our subject
came to Lawrence County about 1824, but the father of Mr. Pitman was in the
county in 1818 and made a land entry, but then returned to his native State.
The Pitman family made a settlement four and one-half miles west of Bedford.
The father of Mr. Pitman died in 1854.  His mother is yet living, and is
about ninety years of age.  The subject of this mention was married in 1862
to Miss RACHEL J. COX, also a native of Indian Creek Township, daughter of
ALEXANDER COX.   Mr. Pitman is one of the leading farmers of his township,
and has at present 385 acres of well improved land.  In 1870 he settled
where he now lives;  here he has valuable improvenemts.  In 1881 Mr. Pitman
began giving some attention to bee culture.   As an apiarist he has been
very successful.  Mr. Pitman is an earnest supporter of the Republican
party, and like his father, has always been a rigid anti-slavery man.  Mr.
and Mrs. Pitman have long been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

WILLIAM C. PITMAN is a native of Lawrence County, Ind., born March 19, 1835,
son of HOLLAND and ELIZABETH (MCNEAL) PITMAN;  is the tenth in a family of
eleven children, and is of German-Irish descent.  When the subject of this
mention was twenty-one years of age he began the battle of life for himself.
He was married in 1860 to Miss PHEBE A. KERN, daughter fo BENJAMIN and NANCY
J. KERN.  They have eleven children, as follows:  HOLLAND C., ALICE E.,
WILLIAM W., LORETTA, ALVA H., MAGGIE E., JENNIE M., BENJAMIN F., FREDERICK,
WALTER A. and NELLIE.  In 1860 Mr. Pitman settled in the vicinity in which
he has since and now resides (Indian Creek Township).  He has 250 acres of
moderately well improved land.  In 1861 Mr. Pitman began stock-raising and
dealing, and this he has since continued.  He handles about 500 head of
cattle per annum.   For some years he has been giving much attention to
thoroughbred stock.  He is a Republican, and cast his first Presidential
vote for Fremont, at which time there were only six votes of that kind in
Indian Creek Township.  Mrs. Pitman is a member of the Christian Church, and
Mr. Pitman is by faith a Methodist.  For twenty-five years the subject of
this mention has been one of the leading and public-spirited men of Lawrence
County.

HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA"  GOODSPEED BROS.
1884