Southampton-Isle of Wight County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, J. Peter III, 1957 

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JEREMIAH PETER HOLLAND, III

J. PETER HOLLAND, GRAPHIC FOUNDER, BURIED WEDNESDAY

     Long time residents of Franklin and the surrounding area were distressed 
to learn of the death on Monday, November 4, of J. Peter Holland, former 
newspaper editor and business man who since 1912 had made his home in Norfolk. 

     Mr. Holland died in a Norfolk hospital Monday night at 8:15 o'clock. At 
the time of his death he was 90 years of age. He had been in failing health 
since August, when he was taken ill while visiting relatives in Marietta, Ga. 

     A native of Isle of Wight County, Mr. Holland was a son of the late Jerry 
and Mrs. Margaret Duck Holland.  He was a brother of the late William S. 
Holland, prominent attorney who lived in Windsor. 

     After receiving his early education in the public schools of Isle of 
Wight County, he attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, then known as 
Virginia A. & M. Institute.  Locating in Franklin, he became interested in 
real estate and printing and was the founder in 1900 of The Graphic, a weekly 
newspaper that was the forerunner of The Tidewater News. The plant of The 
Graphic, which started out as a four-column single-page paper, was on the 
ground floor of the old Masonic Temple, which stood on the site now occupied 
by the Raiford Clinic building.  As the printing and publishing business 
prospered, the enterprise was transferred to a single-story brick structure 
in the same block on Main Street (the building, later run up another story, 
houses the plant of The Tidewater News).  In 1905 Mr. Holland sold the 
business to the newly formed News Publishing Company; and the first issue of 
The Tidewater News appeared in October of that year. 

Joins Firm

      After withdrawing from the publishing field in Franklin, Mr. Holland 
devoted his energies to real estate and insurance, becoming a partner in the 
firm of Woodward, Elam & Holland.  His office was on the ground floor of the 
old Virginian Hotel, now part of Raiford Memorial Hospital.  In 1912 he moved 
with his family to Norfolk, where he had since made his home. 

     Always a staunch democrat, in 1908 he was a candidate for Congress, from 
the Second district, losing the nomination to Harry Lee Maynard of Portsmouth. 
He was one of the backers of the Norfolk Tribune, a daily newspaper which, 
because of the competition of the firmly established Virginian-Pilot and 
Ledger-Dispatch, did not long survive.  For more than 25 years he was a 
justice of the peace in Norfolk, with his office on City hall Avenue, near the 
Courthouse. 

     His wife, the former Annie Magee of Franklin, died in 1942 and was buried 
in the family plot in Popular Spring Cemetery. 

     Surviving are seven children, all of whom were born in Franklin.  They 
are Mrs. Evelyn Holland Ward of Norfolk, Edmund C. Holland of Weaverville, 
N.C., Walter M. Holland of Brookville, Ohio, J. Peter Holland, Jr., of 
Virginia Beach, Howard A. Holland of Winchester, Randolph Holland of Arlington, 
and Bryce Holland of Marietta, Ga. 

     Other survivors include six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; 
three nephews, William S. Holland, C. P. Holland, Sr., and Hugh L. Holland, 
Sr., all of Suffolk; a niece, Miss M. Louise Holland and Washington, D.C.; and 
several cousins, among them G. Fenton Duck, Henry Duck and J.T. Duck, Jr., of 
Franklin. 

     Services for Mr. Holland, who was a communicant of the Episcopal Church, 
were conducted at the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home (Norfolk) at 1 o'clock 
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Edmund Berkeley, rector of Galilee Episcopal 
Church (Virginia Beach). 

     Last rites were held at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery, where Mr. 
Holland was buried beside his wife, shortly after 4 o'clock.  The pallbearers 
were the six sons of the deceased. 


Jeremiah Peter HOLLAND, III, businessman, 
   former publisher & Norfolk justice of the peace, 
b. 22 Aug 1867, Isle of Wight Co., d. 4 Nov 1957, Norfolk, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 40*), Franklin, 
   6 Nov 1957, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Thurs., Nov. 7, 1957, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Anonymous - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #193552110. 

D.Cert. 26874 (Norfolk #1981) 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 6, 1942, p. 1), with their marriage 
   record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h453a7ob.txt 

His mother (1832 - 1926) is buried in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery, 
   near Carrsville. 
   Beaver Dam list (BD-43), an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 


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Carol Stevens, and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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