Lincoln County, West Virginia The Biography of Elisha Walter HOLLEY M. D. The Biography of Elisha Walter HOLLEY M. D. was submitted by Pat R. Adkins, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1894. Rpt. in West Virginia heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock 1974 ELISHA WALTER HOLLEY M. D. a native of Lincoln county born September 10, 1851 is a son of James Avis and Margaret (Holster) Holley. He was a cadet in the West Virginia University three years. James Holley, father of Elisha was a sheriff of Lincoln county four years, having previously been sheriff of Cabell County, West Virginia many years. He was also deputy U. S. marshall and traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church: and was one of the earliest and most prominent settlers of Carroll district. Elisha W. Holley owns about 600 acres of fine farming land, 50 acres of which is excellent bottom land. A portion of the land is heavily timbered with pine, poplar, maple, locust, beech and walnut. The farm abounds in cannel coal, building stone and iron ore. The land is located on Mud river, five miles from Hamlin and upon it is a large orchard and a medicinal spring. Mr. Holley attended the first course of lectures at Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, June 28, 1882; he graduated from the Lousiville, Kentucky, Medical College. he is physician and surgeon attending to all calls, night or day, promptly. His address is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia.