John Chandler Holloway Biography - Grant County Wisconsin ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ***************************************************************************** Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net Source: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery Eminent and Self-Made Men, Wisconsin Volume American Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Cincinnati and New York Published 1877 Page 680-1 HON. JOHN C. HOLLOWAY, LANCASTER JOHN CHANDLER HOLLOWAY, a son of John and Lucy Burt Holloway, is a native of Livingston county, New York, he being born in the town of York, July 7, 1826. The Holloways were early settlers in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and the grand- father of John C. was a blacksmith, connected with a cavalry company during the seven years' fight for freedom from British rule and taxation. The family immigrated to western New York at the close of the second war with the mother country, there engaging in farming, this being the constant employment of young Holloway until of age, with the exception of a few terms of academical instruction at Genesee and Lima. At twenty-one he came as far west as Flint, Michigan, where he was engaged in building fanning-mills for two seasons, and removed thence, after a short sojourn at his home in western New York, to Marion, Ohio, where he farmed and dealt in stock for four years. In the autumn of 1855 Mr. Holloway settled in Lancaster, Wisconsin, purchasing a farm adjoining the village and working it until 1870, engaging meantime in other pursuits. Before the rebellion he was a heavy and prosperous stock-dealer; from 1860 to 1870 was in the mercantile trade, having excellent success, and running a bank during part of this period with George W. Ryland. He has, also, operated a woolen mill from 1872 until the present year (1877). He owns a farm of sixteen hundred acres in Buchanan county, Iowa, of which he has the oversight. He is full of enterprise, and although he has had many different irons in the fire at the same time, he has managed them with care and success. Mr. Holloway was a member of the lower house of the State legislature in 1871, and of the senate four consecutive years, commencing in 1872. While in the latter body he was chairman of the committee on printing the first year of the committee on finance the second, president pro tem, the third, and chairman of the committee on claims the fourth, holding a high position among his co-workers in that honorable body. Mr. Holloway was a whig until the demise of that party, since which time he has acted heartily with the republicans, and is one of their leading men in Grant county. March 3, 1853, Miss Mary E. Baldwin, daughter of Rev. Johnson Baldwin, of York, New York, became his wife, the fruit of their union being six children, only two of whom are now living. Theodore a promising son, was drowned, June 7, 1876, at Beloit, while a student in the college; John, the elder of the two living children, has been about half through Beloit College, and should his health, which is delicate, permit, he intends to graduate. Addie is at home; she has spent two or three years at the State University, Madison. Mr. Holloway has a delightful home in the northern part of the village of Platteville, his elegant house standing in a three-acre lot, embellished by nature and are, and he is living a partially retired and very comfortable life, the health and education of his two children seemingly being his chief concern. His wife, an accomplished woman, is in full sympathy with him in all his tastes and family interests.