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THOMAS P. HOLMAN, M. D., an influential farmer of Lincoln County, Tenn., is a son of James W. and Jean (Flack) Holman, and was born March 3, 1834. At the age of sixteen he began teaching school, and followed that occupation at irregular intervals for upward of six sessions. He entered Union University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., and graduated at the age of twenty-four years. He then became a follower of AEsculapius, and continued his studies to the time of the late civil war. In 1862 he joined Company C, Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, and participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Massy Creek, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Dalton, Resaca, and numerous other engagements of less note. He was captured at Fayetteville in 1864, and taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, but was exchanged at the end of six weeks, and immediately rejoined his command. He returned home in 1865 and taught school one session, and then kept a hotel in Shelbyville for about one year and a half. In 1867 he entered the medical department at Washington University at Baltimore, Md., and graduated as an M. D. in 1869. He was appointed resident physician of Bay View Asylum at Baltimore, but the following year returned to Tennessee and began his practice at Mulberry. January 5, 1875, he wedded Silena Moore, daughter of Captain Lewis Moore, who was killed at Jonesboro in 1864. Mrs. Holman was born in 1850, and has borne her husband the following children: Burke, Wayne, Leon, Fannie Lynne, Ross, and Moore. Dr. Holman owns 300 acres of land near Fayetteville, to which he gives the most of his time and attention. He met with good success in his practice, but owing to his enfeebled constitution was compelled to abandon it. In politics he is a Prohibitionist in principle and practice. He belongs to the Freemasons, and his wife is a member of the Christian Church.