Isaac Newton Holman was born the son of Henry Martin Holman buried Upper Spring Grove Cemetery and Elizabeth Williams buried in Bailey Cemetery in Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. Henry wrote "The last place I visited near my old home, was my mother's grave. As I stood pensively by her grave, I felt so bad and lonely that I turned away with a sinking heart." Henry wrote a long story about his old home town. Isaac's name is not to be confused with Isaac Newton Holman as his first cousin also had that name. Isaac was married to Zilpha Augusta Buckingham on April 14, 1858 in Buchanan County, Iowa. She was born the daughter of Joseph Willard Buckingham and Harriet Ann Dudley in Buffalo, New York. Zilpha's parents are buried in Troy Mills, Iowa. Harriet's parents are William Dudley and Ann Chapman who are buried in North Collins Cemetery in Erie, New York. Her brother and family John Chapman Dudley are buried in this cemetery. The Dudley's and Buckingham's came from London, England when John Chapman Dudley was 6 weeks old. Isaac and Zilpha were parents of ten children: Jesse Gilbert Holman buried Upper Spring Grove; unnamed Holman buried Upper Spring Grove; William Fredrick Holman buried Troy Mills, Iowa; Harriet Ellen (Holman) Foreman buried in Troy Mills, Iowa; Bertha H____ (Holman) Stevens buried in ________; Isaac Byron Holman buried in LaPorte City, Iowa; Arthur C______ Holman buried in Bothell, Washington; Sarah C_____ (Holman) Cottrell buried Troy Mills, Iowa; Irving Buckingham Holman buried in Mt. Ayr, Iowa; Alvin Willard Holman buried in Troy Mills, Iowa.
~0bit~ In the death of Isaac Holman at Troy Mills, Saturday morning, Linn county looses one of the best and most highly respected of its early pioneers. A man of rugged character, peculiarly gifted in some ways, he was from early manhood who served his community in his official capaticities. Coming to Buchanan county with his family when a boy, he endured all the dangers, hardships and privations of real pioneering, stories of which he has often told in the columns of THE NEWS, his series of historical articles having comprised one of the most popular features this paper has ever published. Coming into the country when there was little but Indians and wild game he lived to see the wonderful development that has marked the past half century and more, and takes a lively part in it all. Mr. Holman was born August 18, 1833, in Lawrence County, Indiana
and was raised on a farm. His mother died in 1847, leaving the father, Henry Martin Holman, and five children, three girls and two boys. The father and children came to Iowa (Cedar County) in 1850 in company of his uncle, Amos Howery Long, and his family. They arrived a Yonker's Grove in the forenoon of May 22, and rented 20 acres of land, and the two families moving into a log cabin sixteen feet square.
They lost no time in idleness. But the same day of their arrival, started two plows in the field. It being late, the neighbors assisted them in plowing the ground and planting the corn. The season was especially favorable, the finest summer and all, Mr. Holman said, he had ever seen in Iowa. But the succeding summer of 1851, was the wettest ever known in the state and the pioneers were forced to do without bread. Mr. Holman, his brother and two younger sisters remained at Yonkers Grove during the summer and fall of 1851.(In September they moved to Buchanan County and purchased 160 acres section 29 and 32.) During the following winter and succeeding fall and winter he spent most of his time in making and hauling out rails with which to fence the new farm. He and his father built a log cabin in the fall of 1851 and moved into it on the dirt floor late in December. For the first four or five years, Mr. Holman, besides making fencing for his father's farm, made many rails for other people. He bought a yoke of cattle and paid for them by making rails at a dollar a hundred. Mr. Holman is a self educated man never having attended school except a part of two terms. His teachers were Samuel Calvin, former state geologist, and Lucy A. Geiger. But the lack of school privilage did not prevent his acquiring an eduction. He took advantage of every spare moment to school himself, studying by the light of the chimney fire and setting up many a night to pour over his studies long after other members had gong to bed and were sound asleep. He began in 1852 by taking up arithmetic. Later he took the Bible as a text book and read it through several times by the light of the chimney fire. Other studies including grammar and short-hand took up his spare evening for several years. He held the office of president of the school board from the organization of the district until 1902, when he moved out of Newton township, going to Cono township, where he is now president of the school board of Evergreen Oak district. He was a member of the republican central committee for a number of years and was serving trustee of Newton township when he moved from there in 1902. Mr. Holman came from a family that has played a prominent part in history. William S. Holman, who for thirty years represented Indiana in Congress and who through his vigorous opposition to extrvagence in the use of public funds became knwn to the world as the "watch dog of the treasury", was Isaac Holman's uncle. The congressman's father, Jesse Lynch Holman, was judge of the supreme court of Indiana for thirty years. Mr. Holman's great-grandfather owned and sold a large tract of land in Kentucky, and in company with John Cleve Seemes (William H. Harrison's father-in-law) and another man went to Ohio in 1782 to purchase land. Holman had on his person about $10,000 with which to buy land at $1.25 per acre. He selected land near Cincinnati in what was known as the Miami settlement, but before the deed was completed all trace of Holman was lost, it being reported that he had been killed by the Indians while on his way to the land office. But this story was not credited by his relatives at that time, they believing he had been murdered for his money. Mr. Holman's great-mother was at the siege of Bryant's Station, about five miles from Lexington, Kentucky, at which, as every schoolboy will remember, 500 Indians lay cocealed in the high weeds surrounding the stockade waiting for the gates to be thrown open when the settlers would go out for their daily supply of water. The Indians were discovered and the settlers believing the Indians would not ask for a few women, sent the women out after the water. Mr. Holman's relative was one of the water carriers.
*Note-I live within 2 miles of Upper Spring Grove and I am descended from Longs and Dudley's here at Troy Mills, Iowa.
~0bit~ In the death of Isaac Holman at Troy Mills, Saturday morning, Linn county looses one of the best and most highly respected of its early pioneers. A man of rugged character, peculiarly gifted in some ways, he was from early manhood who served his community in his official capaticities. Coming to Buchanan county with his family when a boy, he endured all the dangers, hardships and privations of real pioneering, stories of which he has often told in the columns of THE NEWS, his series of historical articles having comprised one of the most popular features this paper has ever published. Coming into the country when there was little but Indians and wild game he lived to see the wonderful development that has marked the past half century and more, and takes a lively part in it all. Mr. Holman was born August 18, 1833, in Lawrence County, Indiana
and was raised on a farm. His mother died in 1847, leaving the father, Henry Martin Holman, and five children, three girls and two boys. The father and children came to Iowa (Cedar County) in 1850 in company of his uncle, Amos Howery Long, and his family. They arrived a Yonker's Grove in the forenoon of May 22, and rented 20 acres of land, and the two families moving into a log cabin sixteen feet square.
They lost no time in idleness. But the same day of their arrival, started two plows in the field. It being late, the neighbors assisted them in plowing the ground and planting the corn. The season was especially favorable, the finest summer and all, Mr. Holman said, he had ever seen in Iowa. But the succeding summer of 1851, was the wettest ever known in the state and the pioneers were forced to do without bread. Mr. Holman, his brother and two younger sisters remained at Yonkers Grove during the summer and fall of 1851.(In September they moved to Buchanan County and purchased 160 acres section 29 and 32.) During the following winter and succeeding fall and winter he spent most of his time in making and hauling out rails with which to fence the new farm. He and his father built a log cabin in the fall of 1851 and moved into it on the dirt floor late in December. For the first four or five years, Mr. Holman, besides making fencing for his father's farm, made many rails for other people. He bought a yoke of cattle and paid for them by making rails at a dollar a hundred. Mr. Holman is a self educated man never having attended school except a part of two terms. His teachers were Samuel Calvin, former state geologist, and Lucy A. Geiger. But the lack of school privilage did not prevent his acquiring an eduction. He took advantage of every spare moment to school himself, studying by the light of the chimney fire and setting up many a night to pour over his studies long after other members had gong to bed and were sound asleep. He began in 1852 by taking up arithmetic. Later he took the Bible as a text book and read it through several times by the light of the chimney fire. Other studies including grammar and short-hand took up his spare evening for several years. He held the office of president of the school board from the organization of the district until 1902, when he moved out of Newton township, going to Cono township, where he is now president of the school board of Evergreen Oak district. He was a member of the republican central committee for a number of years and was serving trustee of Newton township when he moved from there in 1902. Mr. Holman came from a family that has played a prominent part in history. William S. Holman, who for thirty years represented Indiana in Congress and who through his vigorous opposition to extrvagence in the use of public funds became knwn to the world as the "watch dog of the treasury", was Isaac Holman's uncle. The congressman's father, Jesse Lynch Holman, was judge of the supreme court of Indiana for thirty years. Mr. Holman's great-grandfather owned and sold a large tract of land in Kentucky, and in company with John Cleve Seemes (William H. Harrison's father-in-law) and another man went to Ohio in 1782 to purchase land. Holman had on his person about $10,000 with which to buy land at $1.25 per acre. He selected land near Cincinnati in what was known as the Miami settlement, but before the deed was completed all trace of Holman was lost, it being reported that he had been killed by the Indians while on his way to the land office. But this story was not credited by his relatives at that time, they believing he had been murdered for his money. Mr. Holman's great-mother was at the siege of Bryant's Station, about five miles from Lexington, Kentucky, at which, as every schoolboy will remember, 500 Indians lay cocealed in the high weeds surrounding the stockade waiting for the gates to be thrown open when the settlers would go out for their daily supply of water. The Indians were discovered and the settlers believing the Indians would not ask for a few women, sent the women out after the water. Mr. Holman's relative was one of the water carriers.
*Note-I live within 2 miles of Upper Spring Grove and I am descended from Longs and Dudley's here at Troy Mills, Iowa.
Isaac Newton Holman was born the son of Henry Martin Holman buried Upper Spring Grove Cemetery and Elizabeth Williams buried in Bailey Cemetery in Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. Henry wrote "The last place I visited near my old home, was my mother's grave. As I stood pensively by her grave, I felt so bad and lonely that I turned away with a sinking heart." Henry wrote a long story about his old home town. Isaac's name is not to be confused with Isaac Newton Holman as his first cousin also had that name. Isaac was married to Zilpha Augusta Buckingham on April 14, 1858 in Buchanan County, Iowa. She was born the daughter of Joseph Willard Buckingham and Harriet Ann Dudley in Buffalo, New York. Zilpha's parents are buried in Troy Mills, Iowa. Harriet's parents are William Dudley and Ann Chapman who are buried in North Collins Cemetery in Erie, New York. Her brother and family John Chapman Dudley are buried in this cemetery. The Dudley's and Buckingham's came from London, England when John Chapman Dudley was 6 weeks old. Isaac and Zilpha were parents of ten children: Jesse Gilbert Holman buried Upper Spring Grove; unnamed Holman buried Upper Spring Grove; William Fredrick Holman buried Troy Mills, Iowa; Harriet Ellen (Holman) Foreman buried in Troy Mills, Iowa; Bertha H____ (Holman) Stevens buried in ________; Isaac Byron Holman buried in LaPorte City, Iowa; Arthur C______ Holman buried in Bothell, Washington; Sarah C_____ (Holman) Cottrell buried Troy Mills, Iowa; Irving Buckingham Holman buried in Mt. Ayr, Iowa; Alvin Willard Holman buried in Troy Mills, Iowa.
~0bit~ In the death of Isaac Holman at Troy Mills, Saturday morning, Linn county looses one of the best and most highly respected of its early pioneers. A man of rugged character, peculiarly gifted in some ways, he was from early manhood who served his community in his official capaticities. Coming to Buchanan county with his family when a boy, he endured all the dangers, hardships and privations of real pioneering, stories of which he has often told in the columns of THE NEWS, his series of historical articles having comprised one of the most popular features this paper has ever published. Coming into the country when there was little but Indians and wild game he lived to see the wonderful development that has marked the past half century and more, and takes a lively part in it all. Mr. Holman was born August 18, 1833, in Lawrence County, Indiana
and was raised on a farm. His mother died in 1847, leaving the father, Henry Martin Holman, and five children, three girls and two boys. The father and children came to Iowa (Cedar County) in 1850 in company of his uncle, Amos Howery Long, and his family. They arrived a Yonker's Grove in the forenoon of May 22, and rented 20 acres of land, and the two families moving into a log cabin sixteen feet square.
They lost no time in idleness. But the same day of their arrival, started two plows in the field. It being late, the neighbors assisted them in plowing the ground and planting the corn. The season was especially favorable, the finest summer and all, Mr. Holman said, he had ever seen in Iowa. But the succeding summer of 1851, was the wettest ever known in the state and the pioneers were forced to do without bread. Mr. Holman, his brother and two younger sisters remained at Yonkers Grove during the summer and fall of 1851.(In September they moved to Buchanan County and purchased 160 acres section 29 and 32.) During the following winter and succeeding fall and winter he spent most of his time in making and hauling out rails with which to fence the new farm. He and his father built a log cabin in the fall of 1851 and moved into it on the dirt floor late in December. For the first four or five years, Mr. Holman, besides making fencing for his father's farm, made many rails for other people. He bought a yoke of cattle and paid for them by making rails at a dollar a hundred. Mr. Holman is a self educated man never having attended school except a part of two terms. His teachers were Samuel Calvin, former state geologist, and Lucy A. Geiger. But the lack of school privilage did not prevent his acquiring an eduction. He took advantage of every spare moment to school himself, studying by the light of the chimney fire and setting up many a night to pour over his studies long after other members had gong to bed and were sound asleep. He began in 1852 by taking up arithmetic. Later he took the Bible as a text book and read it through several times by the light of the chimney fire. Other studies including grammar and short-hand took up his spare evening for several years. He held the office of president of the school board from the organization of the district until 1902, when he moved out of Newton township, going to Cono township, where he is now president of the school board of Evergreen Oak district. He was a member of the republican central committee for a number of years and was serving trustee of Newton township when he moved from there in 1902. Mr. Holman came from a family that has played a prominent part in history. William S. Holman, who for thirty years represented Indiana in Congress and who through his vigorous opposition to extrvagence in the use of public funds became knwn to the world as the "watch dog of the treasury", was Isaac Holman's uncle. The congressman's father, Jesse Lynch Holman, was judge of the supreme court of Indiana for thirty years. Mr. Holman's great-grandfather owned and sold a large tract of land in Kentucky, and in company with John Cleve Seemes (William H. Harrison's father-in-law) and another man went to Ohio in 1782 to purchase land. Holman had on his person about $10,000 with which to buy land at $1.25 per acre. He selected land near Cincinnati in what was known as the Miami settlement, but before the deed was completed all trace of Holman was lost, it being reported that he had been killed by the Indians while on his way to the land office. But this story was not credited by his relatives at that time, they believing he had been murdered for his money. Mr. Holman's great-mother was at the siege of Bryant's Station, about five miles from Lexington, Kentucky, at which, as every schoolboy will remember, 500 Indians lay cocealed in the high weeds surrounding the stockade waiting for the gates to be thrown open when the settlers would go out for their daily supply of water. The Indians were discovered and the settlers believing the Indians would not ask for a few women, sent the women out after the water. Mr. Holman's relative was one of the water carriers.
*Note-I live within 2 miles of Upper Spring Grove and I am descended from Longs and Dudley's here at Troy Mills, Iowa.
~0bit~ In the death of Isaac Holman at Troy Mills, Saturday morning, Linn county looses one of the best and most highly respected of its early pioneers. A man of rugged character, peculiarly gifted in some ways, he was from early manhood who served his community in his official capaticities. Coming to Buchanan county with his family when a boy, he endured all the dangers, hardships and privations of real pioneering, stories of which he has often told in the columns of THE NEWS, his series of historical articles having comprised one of the most popular features this paper has ever published. Coming into the country when there was little but Indians and wild game he lived to see the wonderful development that has marked the past half century and more, and takes a lively part in it all. Mr. Holman was born August 18, 1833, in Lawrence County, Indiana
and was raised on a farm. His mother died in 1847, leaving the father, Henry Martin Holman, and five children, three girls and two boys. The father and children came to Iowa (Cedar County) in 1850 in company of his uncle, Amos Howery Long, and his family. They arrived a Yonker's Grove in the forenoon of May 22, and rented 20 acres of land, and the two families moving into a log cabin sixteen feet square.
They lost no time in idleness. But the same day of their arrival, started two plows in the field. It being late, the neighbors assisted them in plowing the ground and planting the corn. The season was especially favorable, the finest summer and all, Mr. Holman said, he had ever seen in Iowa. But the succeding summer of 1851, was the wettest ever known in the state and the pioneers were forced to do without bread. Mr. Holman, his brother and two younger sisters remained at Yonkers Grove during the summer and fall of 1851.(In September they moved to Buchanan County and purchased 160 acres section 29 and 32.) During the following winter and succeeding fall and winter he spent most of his time in making and hauling out rails with which to fence the new farm. He and his father built a log cabin in the fall of 1851 and moved into it on the dirt floor late in December. For the first four or five years, Mr. Holman, besides making fencing for his father's farm, made many rails for other people. He bought a yoke of cattle and paid for them by making rails at a dollar a hundred. Mr. Holman is a self educated man never having attended school except a part of two terms. His teachers were Samuel Calvin, former state geologist, and Lucy A. Geiger. But the lack of school privilage did not prevent his acquiring an eduction. He took advantage of every spare moment to school himself, studying by the light of the chimney fire and setting up many a night to pour over his studies long after other members had gong to bed and were sound asleep. He began in 1852 by taking up arithmetic. Later he took the Bible as a text book and read it through several times by the light of the chimney fire. Other studies including grammar and short-hand took up his spare evening for several years. He held the office of president of the school board from the organization of the district until 1902, when he moved out of Newton township, going to Cono township, where he is now president of the school board of Evergreen Oak district. He was a member of the republican central committee for a number of years and was serving trustee of Newton township when he moved from there in 1902. Mr. Holman came from a family that has played a prominent part in history. William S. Holman, who for thirty years represented Indiana in Congress and who through his vigorous opposition to extrvagence in the use of public funds became knwn to the world as the "watch dog of the treasury", was Isaac Holman's uncle. The congressman's father, Jesse Lynch Holman, was judge of the supreme court of Indiana for thirty years. Mr. Holman's great-grandfather owned and sold a large tract of land in Kentucky, and in company with John Cleve Seemes (William H. Harrison's father-in-law) and another man went to Ohio in 1782 to purchase land. Holman had on his person about $10,000 with which to buy land at $1.25 per acre. He selected land near Cincinnati in what was known as the Miami settlement, but before the deed was completed all trace of Holman was lost, it being reported that he had been killed by the Indians while on his way to the land office. But this story was not credited by his relatives at that time, they believing he had been murdered for his money. Mr. Holman's great-mother was at the siege of Bryant's Station, about five miles from Lexington, Kentucky, at which, as every schoolboy will remember, 500 Indians lay cocealed in the high weeds surrounding the stockade waiting for the gates to be thrown open when the settlers would go out for their daily supply of water. The Indians were discovered and the settlers believing the Indians would not ask for a few women, sent the women out after the water. Mr. Holman's relative was one of the water carriers.
*Note-I live within 2 miles of Upper Spring Grove and I am descended from Longs and Dudley's here at Troy Mills, Iowa.
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Isaac Holman
August 18, 1833
January 11, 1913
I.H.
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Buried on this lot is Isaac Newton Holman, Zilpha Agusta Buckingham Holman,
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