Amos Arthur Holloway
In Grant County, as in many other sections of the middle west, the day of the big farm and the loose farming methods have almost passed. Farming is now both a practical and scientific business, and many of the most successful are pursing it according to the intensive methods, making one acre grow what the old fashioned husbandmen produced on two or three acres. One of the prosperous little estates which well illustrates this principle is the farm of Mr. Holloway in Fairmount Township on section twenty-seven. His acreage is only forty-two and a half. About ten acres of this is in native timber, and orchards, while the rest is highly cultivated soil. His crops are of a general nature, principally corn, but also oats and other grains. An orchard of three acres in apples, with other fruits produces a considerable share of his annual revenue. Nearly all the grain produced on his farm is fed to his hogs, and he keeps some other stock. Mr. Holloway is a young and progressive farmer citizen of Grant County, and his early prosperity is an indication of what many years will bring him in the future.
Amos A. Holloway was born on the farm he now owns and occupies on December 10, 1882. With the exception of two years his entire career has been spent in this one locality. His parents were Abner and Sarah (Rich) Holloway, natives of North Carolina, both of whom were almost children when their respective parents moved to Indiana. They married at Fairmount, and established their first home in this county.
For a number of years their residence was in Monroe Township, after which they came to Fairmount Township, bought and owned a large tract of two hundred and seventy acres. There the father passed away April 2, 1903, when more than seventy years of age. His church was the Friends, and in politics he was a Republican. His widow now lives with her children, and is a Quaker, and over seventy-three years of age. There were five sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living, and all are married and have children, being well settled and self-sustaining.
Mr. Holloway, the youngest of the children, was married in Monroe Township in 1904 to Miss Mary E. Fleming, who was born in Monroe Township, May 28, 1885. She is a daughter of George and Susanna (Hollis) Fleming, who are now living in Monroe Township, an both natives of Indiana, and married in Grant County. The Fleming family are members of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Holloway is the second of three children.
To Mr. and Mrs. Holloway have been born six children: Willard A., aged eight years; George, who was killed while playing on the railway tracks by a passenger train on October 5, 1908 at the age of two years; Clyde L., aged six years; Ruth D., aged four; Anna L., aged two; and Charles, now a few months old. Mr. Holloway is a Quaker, while his wife adheres to the Methodist Church, and his politics is Republican.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner