In February. 1865, he then being but little past twenty years of age, he enlisted at Elizabeth, Illinois, for service in the Union army and went to the front as a member of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and with that command joined Sherman's army in its triumphant march up from Savannah and through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington, but necessarily saw little active service, as the war came to an end in the following April.

Src: History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions (1917)



Name: John Holland
Residence: Woodburn, Illinois
Class: 3
Congressional District: 10th
Age on 1 July 1863: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1841
Race: White
Marital Status: Unmarried (Single)
Place of Birth: Illinois

(Source: U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865)


Name: John Holland
Age in 1870: 28
Birth Year: abt 1842
Birthplace: England
Home in 1870: Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Carbon Cliff
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Household Members:
Name Age
John Holland 28
Mary Holland 25
Emiline Holland 4
George Holland 2

(Source: 1870 United States Federal Census)


Name: John Holland
Age: 39
Birth Year: abt 1841
Birthplace: England
Home in 1880: Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary Holland
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
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Occupation: Manufactors Stone Ware
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Household Members:
Name Age
John Holland 39
Mary Holland 35
Emeline Holland 13
George F. Holland 12
Oliver E. Holland 8

(Source: 1880 United States Federal Census)


Name: John Holland
Age: 59
Birth Date: Apr 1841
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1900: Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary Holland
Marriage Year: 1865
Years Married: 35
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
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Household Members:
Name Age
John Holland 59
Mary Holland 56
George Holland 32
Emaline Bi??Kwith 5

(Source: 1900 United States Federal Census)


Name: John Holland
Age in 1910: 69
Birth Year: abt 1841
Birthplace: England
Home in 1910: Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1860
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mary Holland
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
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Household Members:
Name Age
John Holland 69
Mary Holland 66

(Source: 1910 United States Federal Census)


Name: John Holland
Birth Date: 9 Apr 1841
Birth Place: Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Date: 28 Dec 1917
Death Place: Carbon Cliff, Hampton, R I , Illinois
Burial Date: 30 Dec 1917
Burial Place: Carbon Cliff
Death Age: 76
Occupation: Potter Retired
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: John Holland
Father Birth Place: England
Mother Name: Mary Bay
Mother Birth Place: Germany
FHL Film Number: 1543607

(Source: Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947)


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John Holland
Mary Bay


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