DAVID HOLMES - Biography

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This biography appears on page 655 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

DAVID HOLMES, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Sylvania; born in Portsmouth, N.
H., in 1814; he came West, in 1842, and purchased 372 acres of land, in
what is now Yorkville Township, Racine Co.; returning East, he remained
in Massachusetts until May, 1852, when he again came West, and settled
on the farm he had previously bought, where he has since remained. He
married, in Massachusetts, May 1, 1852, Miss Sarah K. Proctor, a native
of New Hampshire. Mr. Holmes has one son living- Frank E., born Sept.
22, 1858; one child died in infancy. Mr. Holmes owns 510 acres of land.