Bio by: Garver Graver
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"In memory of Major James Holland, who was born A.D. 1751, and departed this life on the 19th of May 1823, in his 72d year. He served his country in a military and civil capacity throughout the war for American Independence, and was afterwards for many years a member of the Legislature of N.C. and a representative in Congress from that State. In 1811 he retired to private life, with great popularity and weight of character, an arduous and faithful public servant of 37 years. He was possessed of an energetic and philosophical mind, was of an humane disposition and a sincere lover of order and peace in the world. In private relations he was a good husband, parent, master, neighbor and friend, was kind and hospitable to the poor and strangers, and even admired that precopt, immortality and religion which saith 'and as y;e would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise."
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