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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Grundy County, Illinois
Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers
Lakeside Building,
1881
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Erienna Twp. -
JOSHUA HOGE, JR., farmer, P. O. Morris, the
subject of this sketch is a native of the county of Grundy, Ill.,
born July 25, 1850, son of Samuel and Matilda Hoge, of Nettle
Creek Township. Raised in Grundy County and educated in the
State Normal Lombard University, and took a course in Bryant
& Stratton's Commercial College of Chicago. Married,
Feb. 19, 1876, in Morris, to Miss Lora E. Quigley, daughter
of Henry and Matilda Quigley, formerly of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Hoge was born in the vicinity of Meadville, Crawford
Co., Penn., Dec. 11, 1859. They have a family of two children -
Samuel Hoge, born in Grundy County, Aug. 12, 1877; unnamed, born
Aug. 25, 1882. Subject owns a farm of 560 acres of valuable
land in the town of Erienna, Sections 1 and 6, of Erienna;
residence, four miles west from Morris. Value of land $50 per
acre; engaged in stock-raising and mixed husbandry; politics,
Republican. Mrs. Hoge's father was a native of
Pennsylvania, born 1812, and died in Crawford County, Penn., 1866.
Her mother is now living with her son, E. H. Quigley, of
Morris, in her fifty-seventh year.
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois - Chicago: O. L.
Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Bldg., Publ. 1881 -
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Erienna Twp. -
ABRAHAM HOLDERMAN, SR., Seneca. The
subject of this sketch, Abraham Holderman, is a son of
Abraham and Charlotte Holderman, who came to what is now Grundy
County in the fall of 1831, the year before the Black Hawk war.
Subject was then nine years old, being born in Ross County, Ohio,
Jan. 22, 1822. At the time of his first recollection of this
county there were but two houses between the Holderman Grove and
Chicago, and no house from them to Bloomington. Went to mill
over thirty miles. Nearest trading point was Chicago.
Their first school was taught in the winter of 1834, obtaining a
teacher for $10 per month. At this time there was not a sawed
board nor a nail in any of their buildings. Some years they
lost all their hay and grain from prairie fires. Subject was
married in Grundy May 4, 1847, to Miss Mary E. Hoge, daughter
of William and Rachael Hoge. She was born in Loudoun
County, Va., Aug. 17, 1827, and came with her parents to this county
the fall of 1831. They were the first family in the county.
Her brother James Hoge being the first white child born in
the county. Subject has a family of eight children, three of
whom are dead - William Holderman, born July 3, 1848;
Joseph, Feb. 11, 1850, and Hendley, Dec. 11, 1851, all
deceased; Abram J. Holderman, who biography appears on
another page; Albert H. Holderman Apr. 19, 1856; Matha J.
Holderman, born Mar. 16, 1858; Landy S. Holderman, born
Nov. 8, 1859, and Samuel D. Holderman, born July 21, 1865.
Mr. Holderman now owns about 5,000 acres of land, principally
in one body, besides giving his children 2,000 acres. Engaged
in farming and stock-raising. Politics, Republican;
seventy-three voters in the township when organized, seventy-one of
whom were Irish canal hands; subject being the only one left in the
township.
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois - Chicago: O. L.
Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Bldg., Publ. 1881 -
Page 134 |
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Erienna Twp. -
ABRAM J. HOLDERMAN, farmer, P. O. Morris.
The subject of this sketch is a native of Grundy County, Ill., born
May 17, 1853, son of Abram and Mary E. Holderman, who are
among the first settlers of the county. Educated in his native
county, and married, Mar. 6, 1876, to Miss Josephine V. Bashaw,
daughter of Robert and Virginia Bashaw. She was born in
Rappahannock County, Va., Sept. 14, 1855, and came to this county in
1873. Her mother is dead, the father living in Virginia.
They have a family of three children - Mary V. Holderman,
born in Grundy County Mar. 28, 1877; Walter T. Holderman,
born in Grundy County Sept. 29, 1878; Robert J. Holderman,
born in Grundy County, Feb. 11, 1882. Subject now owns a farm
of 640 acres in Sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, of Erienna Township;
residence four and one-half miles west from Morris. Engaged in
Stock-raising; politics, Republican.
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois - Chicago: O. L. Baskin &
Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Bldg., Publ. 1881 - Page 135 |
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