When he was 15 years old he joined the 56th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War and served four years.
Returning from the war he married S. J. Huston and moved to the state of Illinois in 1877.
They came to Kansas in 1881 and settled in Sumner County where they resided until the opening of Oklahoma. He secured a claim near Crescent City.
James was appointed a Justice of the Peace by Governor George W. Steele in 1891, and elected to the same position in 1892.
He was survived by his wife and ten children, A. B., Oliver, Benjamin, James, Pearl, and Roy Holliday, and Ellen Harned, Bertha Culp, Daisy Mock, and William Holliday; also five brothers John, D. E., W. S., J. K. and A. B. Holliday.
(Published in The Logan County News, October 11, 1912.)
When he was 15 years old he joined the 56th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War and served four years.
Returning from the war he married S. J. Huston and moved to the state of Illinois in 1877.
They came to Kansas in 1881 and settled in Sumner County where they resided until the opening of Oklahoma. He secured a claim near Crescent City.
James was appointed a Justice of the Peace by Governor George W. Steele in 1891, and elected to the same position in 1892.
He was survived by his wife and ten children, A. B., Oliver, Benjamin, James, Pearl, and Roy Holliday, and Ellen Harned, Bertha Culp, Daisy Mock, and William Holliday; also five brothers John, D. E., W. S., J. K. and A. B. Holliday.
(Published in The Logan County News, October 11, 1912.)
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