BIOGRAPHIES:  John HOLDEN, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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John Holden (deceased) was born at Dowlingville, Pa., August 22, 1825,
a son of Stephen and Polly (Shields) Holden.  When but eight years old
he began to assist his stepfather in clearing up a farm, and received
but little education.  He was married November 22, 1849, to Lucinda C.
Clover, daughter of Philip and Fannie (Clugh) Clover.  Mrs. Holden was
born October 25, 1832.  Eight children have blessed their union: 
Stephen C., now of Montour, Iowa, born April 25, 1851; Philip R., born
February 5, 1853, died September 26, 1856; Emma L. (Mrs. I. H.
Milliren), October 3, 1855; Corydon J., August 19, 1858, died October
19, 1886; Hyla J. E. (Mrs. L. B. Leflay), November 18, 1861; James E.,
June 16, 1863, died August 16, 1863; Fannie B. (Mrs. W. H. Biles),
March 27, 1868; Evan C., May 6, 1874, died August 24, 1874.  In the
spring of 1853 Mr. Holden sold out and removed to Pepin, Wis., where he
built the third house in the village.  Soon afterward he purchased a
farm on which he resided most of the time until 1876, when he sold out
and removed to Tama county, Iowa.  Returning to Pepin in 1878, he
purchased another farm in sections eleven and fourteen, township twenty-
three, range fifteen.  In 1887 he returned to the village of Pepin,
where his death occurred February 25, 1889, after a lingering illness. 
Mr. Holden was a miller by trade, which business he followed for a
number of years in Pepin and Kinnikinnick, Wis., where the family lived
in 1866-67.  For several years previous to his death he worked as a
mason and bricklayer, and erected several of the best buildings in the
village and town.  In politics Mr. Holden was an active republican,
although never aspiring to hold office.  He was for thirty years a
member of the Methodist church.  Industrious and strictly honorable in
business, he led a peaceable, unostentatious life, which won the
respect of the whole community in which he lived.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 699-700.


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