Mr. Holton financed a group of anti-slavery settlers who moved into northeast Kansas to help make the state an anti-slavery state. The settlers named a town in Jackson county, Kansas after him and Holton became a classic small American town. You can find info about the town here: Holton, KS
Honorable Edward Dwight Holton, of Milwaukee, the gentleman who fitted out the emigrants who first settled in this city, and after whom, the town was named died at Savannah, Georgia, April 21, 1892, of malaria and erysipelas. If he had lived one week longer, he would have been seventy-seven years old. The deceased had been spending the winter in Florida, where he owned an orange plantation and winter residence ... Mr. Holton was a native of New Hampshire, and was a grandson of Timothy Dwight Holton, of Ellington, Ct., a warm friend of Gen. George Washington. He with two brothers settled in Wisconsin in 1838, and removed to Milwaukee in 1840, when they went into business ... In the days of slavery agitation he was a zealous Abolitionist, and when the free state men were struggling for the ascendancy of Kansas he furnished an outfit for a band of free state men who came through this county in 1857 and laid out the city of Holton.. In the year 1880 Mr. Holton, accompanied by his wife, made his first visit to our city.
The Holton Weekly Recorder, May 12, 1892.
Honorable Edward Dwight Holton, of Milwaukee, the gentleman who fitted out the emigrants who first settled in this city, and after whom, the town was named died at Savannah, Georgia, April 21, 1892, of malaria and erysipelas. If he had lived one week longer, he would have been seventy-seven years old. The deceased had been spending the winter in Florida, where he owned an orange plantation and winter residence ... Mr. Holton was a native of New Hampshire, and was a grandson of Timothy Dwight Holton, of Ellington, Ct., a warm friend of Gen. George Washington. He with two brothers settled in Wisconsin in 1838, and removed to Milwaukee in 1840, when they went into business ... In the days of slavery agitation he was a zealous Abolitionist, and when the free state men were struggling for the ascendancy of Kansas he furnished an outfit for a band of free state men who came through this county in 1857 and laid out the city of Holton.. In the year 1880 Mr. Holton, accompanied by his wife, made his first visit to our city.
The Holton Weekly Recorder, May 12, 1892.
Mr. Holton financed a group of anti-slavery settlers who moved into northeast Kansas to help make the state an anti-slavery state. The settlers named a town in Jackson county, Kansas after him and Holton became a classic small American town. You can find info about the town here: Holton, KS
Honorable Edward Dwight Holton, of Milwaukee, the gentleman who fitted out the emigrants who first settled in this city, and after whom, the town was named died at Savannah, Georgia, April 21, 1892, of malaria and erysipelas. If he had lived one week longer, he would have been seventy-seven years old. The deceased had been spending the winter in Florida, where he owned an orange plantation and winter residence ... Mr. Holton was a native of New Hampshire, and was a grandson of Timothy Dwight Holton, of Ellington, Ct., a warm friend of Gen. George Washington. He with two brothers settled in Wisconsin in 1838, and removed to Milwaukee in 1840, when they went into business ... In the days of slavery agitation he was a zealous Abolitionist, and when the free state men were struggling for the ascendancy of Kansas he furnished an outfit for a band of free state men who came through this county in 1857 and laid out the city of Holton.. In the year 1880 Mr. Holton, accompanied by his wife, made his first visit to our city.
The Holton Weekly Recorder, May 12, 1892.
Honorable Edward Dwight Holton, of Milwaukee, the gentleman who fitted out the emigrants who first settled in this city, and after whom, the town was named died at Savannah, Georgia, April 21, 1892, of malaria and erysipelas. If he had lived one week longer, he would have been seventy-seven years old. The deceased had been spending the winter in Florida, where he owned an orange plantation and winter residence ... Mr. Holton was a native of New Hampshire, and was a grandson of Timothy Dwight Holton, of Ellington, Ct., a warm friend of Gen. George Washington. He with two brothers settled in Wisconsin in 1838, and removed to Milwaukee in 1840, when they went into business ... In the days of slavery agitation he was a zealous Abolitionist, and when the free state men were struggling for the ascendancy of Kansas he furnished an outfit for a band of free state men who came through this county in 1857 and laid out the city of Holton.. In the year 1880 Mr. Holton, accompanied by his wife, made his first visit to our city.
The Holton Weekly Recorder, May 12, 1892.
Family Members
Spouse
Children
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
