Lewis Holloway Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 890

LEWIS HOLLOWAY, farmer; has been a resident of Grant Co. since 1863.  A native 
of Livingston Co., N. Y., born Sept. 30, 1832, a son of John and Lucy Burt 
Holloway, both natives of Massachusetts, of English descent.  He was married to 
Miss Cornelia Stone, of Troy, Mich, Oct. 24, 1855, a daughter of William and 
Harriet Morris Stone.  He came West in the spring of 1863, and purchased 1,000 
acres of wild prairie land, two miles south of Lancaster, breaking 400 acres the 
first season.  130 of which he planted to wheat, and received a crop of 3,200 
bushels, which he sold for $2.10 per bushel.  His farm cost him $13,000, nearly 
one half of which he paid with his first years crop.  After five years he sold 
his land for $40 per acre, to George Stewart and Edward McKinney.  Mr. Holloway 
is a cattle dealer, having followed it twenty years.  He bought his present home 
and farm of 340 acres in 1871.  He has for several years been Alderman, and is 
at present.