US Navy Veteran (1895-1926), Spanish American War and World War I. He was a chief machinist on USFS Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship of the Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay. when it defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron.
He was born in Flushing, Ohio and moved to California when he was 20 in 1888, where he worked at the shipyard, San Francisco Iron Works. In 1893 he became an engineer on a Pacific Mail Lines steamer making the route between San Francisco and Hong Kong. Later he returned to work at the Iron Works shipyard. At the time, USS Olympia was being fitted out at the shipyard. Murray fell in love with the ship and quit his job to enlist on January 8, 1895, and was a plank owner on Olympia when she was commission the next month. Given his prior engineering experience, he advanced quickly and was a chief petty officer machinist by the time of the Battle of Manila Bay. He have a period account of his time on Olympia that was published in July 1899, including witnessing the ship's giant searchlights on the night of July 13, 1898 providing illumination to artillerists of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry trying to to knock out Spanish entrenchments, and witnessing from Olympia's deck the colors of the regiment as it advanced to take Manila a month later.
In 1901 he was promoted to warrant officer Machinist. He was primarily assigned to battleships after that and was commissioned a lieutenant while attached to USS Arizona during World War I. Her retired on March 1, 1926 with more than 30 years service and his last duty station was as an engineering office at the San Diego destroyer base.
He retired to Coronado where he was a longtime resident with his wife, Julia. He was active in the American Legion and the Dewey Congressional Men's association, one of 1825 men who were awarded the medal for service in the Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay. Lt. Holloway and his wife had two sons, Murray S. Holloway, Jr. and John Adams Holloway, who was an aviation machinist during World War II. Lt Samuel Holloway died in 1943 after a hospitalization at the naval hospital and was survived by his wife and sons.
Holloway Murray Samuel -- [Service Number] 001173144, [Date of Enlistment] 01/08/1895
He was born in Flushing, Ohio and moved to California when he was 20 in 1888, where he worked at the shipyard, San Francisco Iron Works. In 1893 he became an engineer on a Pacific Mail Lines steamer making the route between San Francisco and Hong Kong. Later he returned to work at the Iron Works shipyard. At the time, USS Olympia was being fitted out at the shipyard. Murray fell in love with the ship and quit his job to enlist on January 8, 1895, and was a plank owner on Olympia when she was commission the next month. Given his prior engineering experience, he advanced quickly and was a chief petty officer machinist by the time of the Battle of Manila Bay. He have a period account of his time on Olympia that was published in July 1899, including witnessing the ship's giant searchlights on the night of July 13, 1898 providing illumination to artillerists of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry trying to to knock out Spanish entrenchments, and witnessing from Olympia's deck the colors of the regiment as it advanced to take Manila a month later.
In 1901 he was promoted to warrant officer Machinist. He was primarily assigned to battleships after that and was commissioned a lieutenant while attached to USS Arizona during World War I. Her retired on March 1, 1926 with more than 30 years service and his last duty station was as an engineering office at the San Diego destroyer base.
He retired to Coronado where he was a longtime resident with his wife, Julia. He was active in the American Legion and the Dewey Congressional Men's association, one of 1825 men who were awarded the medal for service in the Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay. Lt. Holloway and his wife had two sons, Murray S. Holloway, Jr. and John Adams Holloway, who was an aviation machinist during World War II. Lt Samuel Holloway died in 1943 after a hospitalization at the naval hospital and was survived by his wife and sons.
Holloway Murray Samuel -- [Service Number] 001173144, [Date of Enlistment] 01/08/1895
US Navy Veteran (1895-1926), Spanish American War and World War I. He was a chief machinist on USFS Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship of the Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay. when it defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron.
He was born in Flushing, Ohio and moved to California when he was 20 in 1888, where he worked at the shipyard, San Francisco Iron Works. In 1893 he became an engineer on a Pacific Mail Lines steamer making the route between San Francisco and Hong Kong. Later he returned to work at the Iron Works shipyard. At the time, USS Olympia was being fitted out at the shipyard. Murray fell in love with the ship and quit his job to enlist on January 8, 1895, and was a plank owner on Olympia when she was commission the next month. Given his prior engineering experience, he advanced quickly and was a chief petty officer machinist by the time of the Battle of Manila Bay. He have a period account of his time on Olympia that was published in July 1899, including witnessing the ship's giant searchlights on the night of July 13, 1898 providing illumination to artillerists of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry trying to to knock out Spanish entrenchments, and witnessing from Olympia's deck the colors of the regiment as it advanced to take Manila a month later.
In 1901 he was promoted to warrant officer Machinist. He was primarily assigned to battleships after that and was commissioned a lieutenant while attached to USS Arizona during World War I. Her retired on March 1, 1926 with more than 30 years service and his last duty station was as an engineering office at the San Diego destroyer base.
He retired to Coronado where he was a longtime resident with his wife, Julia. He was active in the American Legion and the Dewey Congressional Men's association, one of 1825 men who were awarded the medal for service in the Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay. Lt. Holloway and his wife had two sons, Murray S. Holloway, Jr. and John Adams Holloway, who was an aviation machinist during World War II. Lt Samuel Holloway died in 1943 after a hospitalization at the naval hospital and was survived by his wife and sons.
Holloway Murray Samuel -- [Service Number] 001173144, [Date of Enlistment] 01/08/1895
He was born in Flushing, Ohio and moved to California when he was 20 in 1888, where he worked at the shipyard, San Francisco Iron Works. In 1893 he became an engineer on a Pacific Mail Lines steamer making the route between San Francisco and Hong Kong. Later he returned to work at the Iron Works shipyard. At the time, USS Olympia was being fitted out at the shipyard. Murray fell in love with the ship and quit his job to enlist on January 8, 1895, and was a plank owner on Olympia when she was commission the next month. Given his prior engineering experience, he advanced quickly and was a chief petty officer machinist by the time of the Battle of Manila Bay. He have a period account of his time on Olympia that was published in July 1899, including witnessing the ship's giant searchlights on the night of July 13, 1898 providing illumination to artillerists of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry trying to to knock out Spanish entrenchments, and witnessing from Olympia's deck the colors of the regiment as it advanced to take Manila a month later.
In 1901 he was promoted to warrant officer Machinist. He was primarily assigned to battleships after that and was commissioned a lieutenant while attached to USS Arizona during World War I. Her retired on March 1, 1926 with more than 30 years service and his last duty station was as an engineering office at the San Diego destroyer base.
He retired to Coronado where he was a longtime resident with his wife, Julia. He was active in the American Legion and the Dewey Congressional Men's association, one of 1825 men who were awarded the medal for service in the Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay. Lt. Holloway and his wife had two sons, Murray S. Holloway, Jr. and John Adams Holloway, who was an aviation machinist during World War II. Lt Samuel Holloway died in 1943 after a hospitalization at the naval hospital and was survived by his wife and sons.
Holloway Murray Samuel -- [Service Number] 001173144, [Date of Enlistment] 01/08/1895
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