Jesse C. Holloway
Representing a young generation of family which has been identified with Grant County for many years, Jesse C. Holloway has for fourteen years successfully raised the product of the soil on his farm in section twenty-six of Fairmount Township. His farm contains one hundred and twenty acres, nearly all of which is in a high state of cultivation. Farming with Mr. Holloway is a practical business matter, and his methods are such as to insure the continuous fertility and value of his estate. He never raises more than two successive crops of corn on the same ground. His rotation changes his land from clover to corn, then to oats, then to wheat, and then back to clover. His home has been on this land since 1899, and his improvements in buildings are of the very best.
Mr. Holloway ahs lived in grant County all his life, and was born in Monroe Township, January 23, 1876. The family history has been told on other pages and will be briefly summarized at this place. Three brothers of the name left England during the colonial days, and one of them located in North Carolina. Of Quaker stock, the family in subsequent generations have always been devoted to that church. First to be mentioned among the descendants of the first settler is Abner Holloway, who married Elizabeth Stanley, and they both lived and died in North Carolina, where they were farmers and upright people. They were the parents of four children. Of these Jesse was born about 1805, and in his home state he married Eleanor Hinshaw, who was born in North Carolina in 1810. After their marriage they settled on a farm, where the wife gained great reputation throughout a large community as a midwife and doctor. Their home was later moved to Ohio. Jesse and Eleanor Holloway were the parents of nine children. Second among these was Abner, who was born December 6, 1830, in Clinton County, Ohio. When he was a child the family moved to Fairmount Township in grant County. Here in the Friends Church and with the Quaker ceremony, on May 15, 1854, Abner Holloway married Sarah Rich, who was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, October 7, 1837, and was a child when she came to Grant County. The history of the Rich family is told on other pages of this Grant County history. Abner Holloway and wife began their careers in Monroe Township, and in 1882 moved to Fairmount Township. Abner died April 1, 1903, and his widow is still living. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom Jesse C. was the eighth.
Mr. Jesse C. Holloway was six years of age when his parents moved to Fairmount Township, where he grew up and was educated in the local schools. His early environment was a farm and when he started out in life for himself he settled upon that vocation and has made a success of it..
In the house where he now lives, Mr. Holloway was married in 1898 to Miss Lillie M. Corn, who was born in Jonesboro, July 25, 1878. Her parents are John G. and Rebecca (Ice) Corn, who are still living. They were born in Indiana and were married in Madison County, where they had their home for many years later moving to Fairmount Township in this county. Mr. Corn has combined the vocation of carpenter with farming and also runs a threshing outfit during each harvest season.
Mr. and Mrs. Holloway are the parents of five children: R. Gertrude, born July 17, 1899, and now attending school; Dwight C., born September 4, 1901, and in school at Fowlerton; John H., born February 19, 1904, also in school; Hazel E., born May 18, 1908; and S. Pauline, born March 8, 1912.
In politics Mr. Holloway is a Prohibitionist and he and his wife worship in the Methodist Protestant Church.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner