Biographical Sketch of William T. Holman, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William T. Holman, another successful farmer and stock raiser of 
Watkins Township, was born in Overton, now Clay county, Tenn., in 1844,
and is the son of William and Nancy (Barksdale) Holman, and grandson of
William Holman, a native of North Carolina and an early settler of 
Tennessee, where he died.  The parents of our subject were natives of
Tennessee, where they remained until 1845, when they moved to what is
now Dent county, Mo., where they improved a good farm.  In 1860 they
removed to Washington county, where the father died in 1886.  The 
mother had died many years previous, and after her death the father had
married Miss Zilla Woods, whose father was one of the first settlers of
Washington county.  Mr. Holman was a successful farmer and stock raiser
and one of the pioneers of Dent county.  He raised a company of 
soldiers, of which he was made captain, and started to assist in one
of the Indian wars, but his services were not needed.  He was a member
of the Christian church.  William T. Holman, subject of this sketch,
was the third of six children, and was educated in the common schools,
and a few months at Arcadia.  He remained with his father in Washington
county until 1870, when he returned to Dent county and assumed charge 
of the old farm then owned by his father.  He was married in 1871 to
Miss Levicia A., daughter of Abner and Jane Harrison, natives of North
Carolina and Tennessee.  Her parents came to Dent county in 1852, and
there they have since lived.  Mr. Harrison is one of the wealthiest
farmers and stock raisers in the county.  He was born in 1818.  Mr.
Holman, after his marriage, lived on the old farm until 1886, when he
removed to his present farm, a tract of land containing 1,085 acres, 
the most of it the result of his own efforts in farming and stock 
raising.  To his marriage were born six children, three now living.  He
is a Democrat in politics, casting his first presidential vote for
Seymour in 1868.  For ten or eleven years he has been successfully
engaged in breeding Short-horn cattle, beginning with a two year old
heifer, which he paid $110 for, and now has probably the finest herd
in the county.  He was among the first to introduce the stock in the
county, and he has also been engaged in breeding Poland China hogs, of
which he has a fine lot.

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