HOLLIDAY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HOLLIDAY, George S. - b: 1854 Maucoupin Co, IL
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 518
residence: Clinton Twp

George S. Holliday, abstract and real estate agent, owes his nativity to Maucoupin 
County, Illinois, having been born at Carlinville, October 12, 1854. He was 
brought up in his native county and received his education from the Blackburn 
University of Cainville, of which school he was a pupil for five years. In 1875 he 
began the study of law with William R. Welch, remaining with him until February, 
1877, when he was admitted to the bar of that state. In 1879 he engaged in the 
abstract of title business which he continued at Carlinville till November, 1881. 
Coming to this city he resumed the same calling here. He has a complete and 
authentic set of abstract books, and having the entire confidence of the public, is 
doing a good business.

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HOLLIDAY, George S. - b: 1854 Carlinville, IL
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 618
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

George S. Holliday, president of the Citizens Bank of Clinton and a well-known 
abstracter and man of affairs in Henry County, is a native of Illinois. He was born 
at Carlinville, Illinois, October 12, 1854, a son of George H. and Cinderella 
(Chisn) Holliday, the former a native of Conneaut, Ohio, and the latter of 
Kentucky. George H. Holliday, the father, was a highly educated man and a civil 
engineer by profession. He followed civil engineering in early life and later 
engaged in newspaper work, and for several years published a newspaper at 
Carlinville, Illinois. He took an active part in politics, and for a number of years 
served as county clerk in Ohio. He died in 1870, at the age of forty-eight years. 
His wife, after his death, removed to Clinton, where her son, George S., the 
subject of this sketch, had preceded her. She died in 1915, aged eighty-three 
years. George S. Holliday had the advantages of a very good education. After 
receiving a thorough common school education, he took a course in Blackburn 
University at Carlinville, Illinois, and later attended Sanders Institute, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then studied law at Carlinville, Illinois, under the 
preceptorship of Hon. William R. Welch, and was admitted to the bar at Mt. 
Vernon, Illinois, in 1878. He was then employed in the abstract office of J. L. 
Plain, Carlinville, Illinois, for a period of two years. Then, in 1880 he came to 
Clinton, Missouri, and purchased the abstract books and business of Cheek & 
Kimbrough, and since that time has been engaged in the abstract business in 
Clinton, a period of thirty-eight years. There is no better posted man in the 
abstract and title business in Henry County than George S. Holliday. In addition to 
his busy career as a professional abstracter, Mr. Holliday has successfully 
directed his energies to other financial and industrial channels. He was one of 
the organizers of both the Cottage Building & Loan Association and the Henry 
County Building and Loan Association, and has been actively identified with both 
of these enterprises since their organization, and served as president of both 
organizations for a number of years. He is also interested in the banking 
business, having been identified with the Citizens Bank of Clinton for sometime, 
and is now the president of that well-known and substantial Henry County bank. 
Mr. Holliday has given much thought and study to the subject of civic 
improvement, and has been an active factor in all matters for the betterment and 
upbuilding of Clinton and Henry County. He served as president of the Clinton 
Commercial Club for a number of years, and it was through his efforts and co-
operation that Clinton secured such a splendid Federal building, which is perhaps 
better than in any other town the size of Clinton in the southwest. Mr. Holliday 
was united in marriage January 16, 1887, to Miss Alice Ray, a native of Berry, 
Illinois. She is a daughter of James W., and Virginia A. (Gregory) Ray of Parsons, 
Kansas. Mr. Holliday is a Democrat, although he takes no particular active part in 
politics. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is one 
of the substantial citizens of Henry County and for nearly forty years his 
interest and those of Clinton and Henry County have been mutual. He is of the type 
of citizen who has given Henry County the appropriate title of the "Banner County 
of Missouri." 

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