Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Hollingworth, John 1845 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN HOLLINGWORTH is a farmer residing on section 16, Flint Township, Genesee
County. He is a son of Ralph Hollingworth, who was a native of England. His
mother was Jane Harvey in her maiden days, an English lady, who was married in
her native land. She came to America with her husband early in the '40s and they
settled in Genesee Flats, Genesee County, N. Y. There they lived until about
1852, when they removed to Genesee County, Mich., and settled in Flint, where
they lived a few months and then removed upon a farm in the township of Flint,
where he died April 22, 1887. The mother still survives. She has been the parent
of seven children, of whom our subject was the sixth in order of birth. The
place of his nativity was Mt. Morris, Genesee County, N. Y., and his birthday
July 5, 1845.

  Our subject came to Genesee County with his parents and lived under the
parental roof until twenty-one years of age. He enlisted in Company I,
Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, on March 11, 1865, and served until June 30,
the same year, when he was mustered out of service. He has always followed
agricultural pursuits and has taken great pleasure as well as finding profit in
his chosen calling.

  Mr. Hollingworth was married in Flint, November 17, 1868, to Miss Eliza J.
McGlinchey, a daughter of William and Mary At (Given) McGlinchey. She was born
in Dutchess County, N. Y., October 29, 1847. They have four children, whose
names are William B., May B., Frank R. and Essie B. Our subject is the owner of
one hundred and two acres of excellent land. He has created a first-class series
of buildings upon his farm, which is a credit to the township. He has a pleasant
and attractive home and capacious and well-equipped barns and outhouses. In
politics he is a Republican, believing the principles of his party to be
perfectly sound and able to endure conflicting opinions and new formation of
parties. He is a member, socially, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
the Flint River Encampment, No. 28, and belongs to Gov. Crapo Post, G. A. R. He
also affiliates with the Knights of the Maccabees, the Patrons of Industry, and
evidences his interest in the progress of the class to which he belongs by his
union with the Farmersr Alliance. The wife is a Daughter of Rebecca, of Amanda
Lodge, No. 110, at Flint, and the Crapo Corps, No. 23, and Ladies of the
Maccabees, Venice Hive, No. 72. They have a pleasant home and a intelligent
family, who are socially great additions to the township.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892



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