Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Hon. Homer A. HOLT

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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HON. HOMER A. HOLT - born April  27, 1831, in Parkersburg, Wood County, (then)
Virginia, was a son of Jonathan and Eliza (WILSON) HOLT.  His father, born in 
Monongailia County, (then) Virginia, in 1800, died in Harrison County, West 
Virginia, at West Milford, in 1880.  His mother, whose birth was in Beaver 
County, Pennsylvania, in 1807, died at Weston, Lewis County, (then) Virginia,
in July, 1836.  At Sutton, Braxton County, (then) Virginia, January 27, 1857,
Homer A. HOLT wedded Mary A. BYRNE, who was born April 11, 1835, at Bulltown,
then included in Lewis County, and now a part of Braxton County, West Virginia.
She is a daughter of John BYRNE, of Bulltown, and her mother's maiden name was 
Ann HAYMOND.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. HOLT were born: John H., August 10, 
1859; Fannie D., April 30, 1868;  Robert B., September 5, 1870; Mary N., February 
2, 1877.  In the fall of 1853, Homer A. HOLT was admitted to the bar, and he 
practiced in Braxton and adjoining counties from 1854 to 1873.  In 1874 he took 
up his residence among the people of Greenbrier County, and since January 1, 1873,
he has been judge of the circuit court of the 8th and 10th Districts, an office he
still fills.  In 1872 he was a member from Braxton County of the State constitutional
convention.  Judge HOLT's residence and postoffice address are Lewisburg, Greenbrier
County, West Virginia.


Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.