Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Holland, George E. October 18, 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 October 18, 2008, 5:31 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Holland, George E., Litchfield, is a merchant, farmer and lime manufacturer, and has also held the office of postmaster since 1875. He was overseer of the poor, and was drafted during the late war, but paid $300 for a substitute. He was born in Bangor, Me., October 18, 1835, and came to Frankfort with his father, Dr. Richard Holland, who built the Graefenberg water cure, which was named after the first water cure in Germany, and successfully conducted by him from 1847 until about 1864. He married February 1, 1860, Anna E., daughter of Elisha Wetmore, jr., whose father came from Connecticut and settled early in Paris, Oneida county, having bought five hundred acres of land in the woods. He came from Connecticut with a sleigh and yoke of cattle. George E. and Anna E. Holland have three children: F. Adele, Jennie I., and Daniel. Dr. Richard Holland was born Dec. 28, 1806, and is well and smart. He now lives at Watertown. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/holland502gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb