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Rapidan, Virginia, May 7, 1874, son of Henry Thompson and Fanny Walker (Porter)
Holladay.

    Mr. Holladay's father was a merchant by occupation, carrying on a prosperous
business, and was able to give his son good educational advantages. After being
first taught at home by tutors, Henry Thompson Holladay, Jr., attended Locust
Dale Academy in 1889 and 1890, and then entered Hampden-Sidney College at
Farmville, Virginia, in 1890. He was graduated from Hampden-Sidney in 1894 with
the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Immediately after his
graduation in July, 1894, he engaged in business with his father, but in the
winter of 1898, feeling the need of technical business training, he went to
Poughkeepsie, New York, and took a course in the Eastman Business College, from
which he was graduated. He continued in partnership with his father in the
milling business until 1908 when he took over its sole ownership, and has since
conducted it alone. He has made a substantial success. It is not a calling
conductive to the making of millionaires except in two or three notable
instances in the Northwest, where the mills are conducted on a colossal scale,
but by close attention and the application of sound business principles combined
with personal integrity he has made it a good and profitable enterprise. His
business qualifications have been appreciated by his neighbors, and he is now
President of the State Bank of Rapidan.

    Mr. Holladay has never held public office, but takes rather more than usual
interest in politics, is somewhat active as a Democrat, and was a member of the
National Democratic Convention in Baltimore in the summer of 1912, which
nominated Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency. In social circles he is a member of
the Phi Kappi Psi College Fraternity and of the Tomahawk Hunt Club, Orange,
Virginia. He is an active member of the Presbyterian Church, holding the office
of elder in the Waddell Memorial Church of Rapidan.

    He was married at St. David's Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania, on October 23,
1907, to Helen White Warren, who was born March 13, 1883, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and who is a daughter of Henry Mather and Ida Carey (White)
Warren. The children of this marriage are: Henry Warren Holladay, born July 1,
1909; Douglas Stockton Holladay, born July 29, 1911; and Lewis Borden Holladay,
born July 8, 1914.

    The old records show among the earlier mentions of the Holladay name in
Virginia that Jonah Holliday received ninety-three acres in Norfolk County,
April 2S, 1711, for having transported into the colony Robert Stewart and Hannah
Holladay. Under date of 1724 Jonas Holladay received a grant of four hundred
acres on the north side of the Pamunkey Eiver. A few days later two additional
grants of four hundred acres each, making twelve hundred acres altogether, which
were granted him for bringing into the colony a given number of new settlers.
Thomas Holliday, of James City County, received, on October 31, 1716, one
hundred and twenty acres for three persons. This Jonas was the one who served
two terms as sheriff of Norfolk County. Lieutenant Joseph Holladay was in Capt.
Oliver Towles' Company in 177C, and received for his Revolutionary services a
grant for 3144 acres of land. Where this land was situated was not stated.

    John Holladay was First Lieutenant and Lewis Holladay Second Lieutenant,
under Captain Thomas Minor in a Spottsylvania County Company during the
Revolution. James was an Ensign in a company commanded by Stubblefleld. One of
the Holladays was evidently Captain of a Spottsylvania Company, but his given
name is left blank. We know, therefore, that these Spottsylvania Holladays
furnished five soldiers as officers: James, John, Lewis, Joseph and ___, ranging
from ensign to captain. In the War of 1812 we find John and William privates in
the Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment. John and Thomas were privates in the
Thirty-ninth Virginia Regiment, and James was a private in the Twenty-fifth
Virginia Regiment, all of these being credited to Spottsylvania. In another
place in the old records James W. Holladay is credited as having been an old
soldier in the War of 1812, and James Holladay was a member of the Kentucky
Legislature from Nicholas County in 1848. Among the earlier settlers in the
other branch appears Anthony Holliday, who was a Justice of Isle of Wight County
in 1714. When and where Capt. John Holladay, founder of the Spottsylvania
family, was born does not appear. That he died in 1742 is proven by the fact
that his will, bearing date of November 4, 1742, was probated November 7, 1742.
His wife's name was Elizabeth. His will mentioned Joseph and Benjamin Holladay,
sons, and Thomas Pulliam, a son-in-law, as executors. A previous will had been
written and signed on April 9, 1735. This will, which was written by William
Waller, was not probated, but it gives names and facts which are of interest. He
mentions his wife, children and the "plantation" on East Northeast creek in
Southwest Spottsylvania County. This was the place on which he lived, died and
was buried. His grandson, Lewis, spent his life on this place and was buried
there, and his great-grandson, Waller, was reared on this place.

    The Virginia Assembly in May, 1780, passed an act ordering the court of
Spottsylvania County to hold its sessions at the house of John Holladay until
the new court house, then building, should be completed. This John was a
grandson of John, the ranger. The probated will of Capt. John Holladay shows
that he had sons, William, John, Daniel, Joseph and  Benjamin, and daughters,
Elizabeth, wife of Pattison Pulliam; Winifred, wife of Thomas Pulliam; Sarah,
wife of James Rollings, Jr.; and Susanna. Joseph Holladay, son of Captain John,
lived at Elmwood. He married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of Harry Lewis. Major
Lewis Holladay, son of Joseph and grandson of Captain John, was born August 22,
1751, and died at Bellefonte, October, 1820. He married, on March 15, 1774,
Elizabeth Lewis Littlepage, born October 9, 1732, widow of Col. James
Littlepage. She was a daughter of Zachary and Mary Waller Lewis.

    Major Holladay served through the Revolution, being commissioned lieutenant
of the Spottsylvania militia by the Virginia Committee of Safety on October 5,
1775. In 1779 he was assessor for his district. In 1785 he was appointed captain
by Governor Henry, recommissioned by Governor Randolph in 1787, and commissioned
major by Governor Lee in 1793. He was a justice in his county in 1790, and
sheriff in 1804. For many years he held the office of justice and also overseer
of the poor. In addition to his public services he was a large planter,
operating three farms comprising 1,795 acres.

    His children were Anne and Waller. Waller, son of Lewis, grandson of Joseph,
and great-grandson of John, resided at "Prospect Hill," Spottsylvania County.
Born on October 6, 1776, he died at "Prospect Hill" on August 27, 1860, living
to the advanced age of eighty-four. He married, on September 23, 1802, his
cousin, Huldah Fontaine Lewis, who was born at Belair, February 4, 1781. She was
a daughter of Col. Zachary and Anne Overton (Terrill) Lewis. She survived her
husband three years, dying on October 25, 1863.

    Mr. Waller Holladay studied law, was admitted to the Bar on January 12,
1801, and practiced his profession until a large estate left him by General
Littlepage demanded his full time, when he retired from practice. He was a man
of scholarly tastes, and a poet of considerable merit. Though not personally
attracted to public life he was very intimate with some of the foremost men of
that day, and counted among his regular correspondents Thomas Jefferson, Edmund
Randolph, John Randolph, of Roanoke, James Madison and other statesmen of the
time. Like most of the prominent Virginians of that day, he served as a
magistrate and as overseer of the poor. He was a member of the Virginia Senate
in 1829 and 1830, and a Democratic presidential elector in 1836 and 1840. He
declined to be a candidate to the State Senate in 1839 because of illness. He
permitted his name to be used as a candidate to the House of Delegates, and was
beaten by Major Oscar M. Crutchfleld, who jocosely said that he had beaten "the
old wheel horse of Democracy in his county." He was a half-brother of General
Littlepage, who made him his heir.

    Waller Holladay was an excellent man of business and no man of his
generation stood higher in his community. His children were: Lewis Littlepage
Holladay, born August 16, 1803, who married November 8, 1827, Jean Thompson. His
second wife, whom he married in 1804, was Mary Elizabeth (Willis) Garnett. The
second son, Albert Lewis Holladay, was born April 17, 1805, and married October
30, 1830, Anne Yancey Minor. He died October 18, 1856. The third son, John
Zachary Holladay, born December 13, 1806, married on May 19, 1836, Julia Anne
Minor. He died October 12, 1842. The fourth child was a daughter, Anne
Elizabeth, born February 25, 1808, who married, on May 23, 1833, Dr. W. Q.
Poindexter, of Mississippi, a nephew of Governor Poindexter. She died in
December, 1853. The next child, Waller Lewis Holladay, was born on October 22,
1809, married, June 14, 1849, Emily Mansfield, and died December 11, 1873. The
next child was Alexander Richmond Holladay, twin with Henry Addison Holladay.
These two were born September 18, 1811. Alexander Richmond married, on September
7, 1837, Patsy Q. Poindexter, and died January 29, 1877. His twin brother, Henry
Addison, married, May 14, 1846, Mary F. (Jenkins) Calvert. The eighth, ninth,
tenth and eleventh children were daughters: Huldah Lewis, Eliza Lewis, Mary
Waller and Frances Anne, none of whom ever married. The twelfth child, James
Minor, was born May 9, 1823, and married June 22, 1861, Lucy D. Lewis. The
thirteenth and youngest child was Virginia Watson, born August 29, 1829, who
died on the 2nd of May, 1888.

    Lewis Littlepage Holladay, the eldest son of Waller Holladay, became a
physician. As has been stated, he was twice married. His first wife, Jean
Thompson, was a daughter of Henry J. and Rebecca (Welch) Thompson, of
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The second wife married in 1864, five years before
his death, was Mary Elizabeth (Willis) Garnett. She was the widow of Dr. John O.
Garnett. Dr. Holladay was a student at William and Mary College in 1822 and
1823. He studied medicine under Dr. Richmond Lewis, and graduated from the
Medical Department in the University of Maryland in 1825. He practiced medicine
in Spottsylvania County for about twenty years, until 1844 when he moved to
Orange County and settled near Clark's Mountain on Rapidan. He joined the
Presbyterian Church at Fredericksburg in 1828 and was a ruling elder of the
church in Orange. No man of his day was more highly esteemed. He was greatly
beloved and honored by his neighbors. He was a man of studious habit and was
partial to scientific study. Like his father before him, Dr. Holladay had a
large family of children.

    The eldest son of Dr. Holladay was Henry Thompson Holladay, born on August
16, 1828, who married first on December 21, 1853, Mary Jane Boggs, daughter of
Lewis A. Boggs. She died on July 3, 1861. He married secondly on May 3, 1865,
Frances Walker Porter. Dr. Holladay's second child was Waller Lewis Holladay, a
soldier in the Confederate Army. He was born on March 23, 1830, and was married
twice. His first wife was Elizabeth (Kelley) Taliaferro, and his second wife was
Mary Isabelle Henderson. The third son of Dr. Holladay was Lewis Littlepage
Holladay, LL.D. He was born February 23, 1833, and married Nannie Morton. He was
graduated from the University of Virginia in 1851, and became professor of
physical science in Hampden-Sidney, serving also as curator and clerk of the
faculty. He was a man of great learning. The fourth child was John Addison, who
died at the age of two years. The fifth child was a daughter, Huldah Lewis, born
April 12, 1837, who married George Peyton. The sixth child was a daughter,
Rebecca Anne, born in 1839, who married Garnett Willis, a Confederate soldier.
The eighth and youngest child of Dr. Holladay was John Zachary Holladay, who
married Mary Dupuy.

    It will be seen that Henry Thompson Holladay, Jr., is in the seventh
generation from Capt. John Holladay, the founder of this branch of the family in
Virginia, the line of descent being John, Joseph, Lewis, Waller, Lewis
Littlepage, and Henry Thompson Holladay. It would hardly be proper to conclude
this sketch, which is a matter of permanent record, without touching upon
General Lewis Littlepage. The name is said to have been derived from the office
of page, the cup-bearer to royally, a position much sought after by the members
of the nobility for their small sons.

    General Lewis Littlepage, who was the son of James, who was a son of
Richard(2), who was a son of Richard(1), founder of the Virginia family, was
born in Hanover County, Virginia, on December 19, 1762, and died unmarried at
Fredericksburg in July, 1802. He was educated at William and Mary College, which
he entered as a student in 177S. He left a great estate, making his
half-brother, Waller Holladay, his principal heir, giving as his reason, "as the
most deserving of my relations, and one of whose moral principles I have the
best opinion."

    Lewis Littlepage had ambitions for a political career, and was slated as a
youth of seventeen to go with the Honorable John Jay, who had been appointed
Minister to Spain, as his protege. For some reason he failed to go with Mr. Jay
but late in 1779 he sailed for Bordeaux, France.

    The next fifteen years covered a most adventurous career, and many relics of
that career, some years back, were in the possession of A. Q. Holladay. He saw
military service at Port Mahon, Gibraltar and other places. In his military
service he won distinction. He drifted to Poland and became chamberlain to
Stanislaus Augustus, the last king of Poland. Among the relics held by his
relative were the patent of the king of Poland, signed by the king in 1787
conferring upon him the office of Chamberlain, and a patent of knighthood in the
order of St. Stanislaus dated 1790, a letter from the Prince De Nassau-Sighen to
the Marshall de Ligne requesting a captaincy in the Royale Allemande for
Littlepage, which recited his distinguished military services aforementioned,
the Duc de Crillon's letter assigning Littlepage to his staff in 1781,
Littlepage's gold-hilted rapier presented to him by the Queen of Spain, his gold
key which was the badge of his office of Chamberlain, and lastly the portrait of
King Stanislaus presented to General Littlepage by the King at Grodno, which
town is, at the moment of the writing of this sketch, a scene of a terrific
battle between the Germans and the Russians.

    The Coat of Arms brought to Virginia by Captain John Holladay is described
as follows:

    Arms: Sable, three helmets argent, garnished or, a border of the last.

    Crest: A demi-Iion rampant, resting the paws on an anchor azure.

    Motto: Quarta Salute.


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MAKERS OF AMERICA
BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MEN OF THOUGHT AND ACTION

THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THE BONE AND SINEW OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND LIFE

VOLUME II

By
LEONARD WILSON,
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ASSISTED BY PROMINENT HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WRITERS
Illustrated with many full page engravings
B. F. JOHNSON, INC.
CITY OF WASHINGTON, U. S. A.
1916

Copyright, 1916
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