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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 7 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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ROBERT W. HOLLAND, a native of Brown County, Ohio, was born June 7, 1855, and is a son of Robert and Mary E. (McCallom) Holland, natives of Hamilton County, Ohio. Robert Holland died in 1855, at the age of thirty-seven, and his wife is still living in the eastern part of Pendleton County. Thomas Holland, grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia, and was a soldier in the war of 1812; he died in 1859, aged seventy-eight, leaving a widow, Eliza Holland, who died in February, 1886, at the advanced age of ninety-eight, having lived sixty years on the same farm in Clermont County, Ohio. After receiving a common-school education, Robert W. Holland finished his education at Central Normal College, Danville, Ind. He read law with Hon. J. T. Simons, at Falmouth, Ky., beginning in 1878, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1881; two years later he began the practice of his profession at Falmouth, and in August, 1886, he was elected county attorney on the Democratic ticket, which office he still holds. He was married in October, 1880, to Miss Anna Tomlin, of Falmouth, and to their union have been born three children: Newman E., aged five years; Mary N., aged three years, and Stella, three months old. Mr. Holland is a member of the A. O. U. W., and also a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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This family biography is one of 27 biographies included in the Pendleton County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 7 published in 1887 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 7

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