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Samuel Melville Holden (1840 - 1907)

Samuel Melville Holden
Born in Casco, Cumberland, Maine, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 23 Oct 1867 in Powesheik, Iowa, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 66 in Weeping Water, Cass, Nebraska, United Statesmap
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Biography

Samuel was born in 1840 in Maine. He passed away in 1907 in Nebraska. Here are excerpts from a biographical sketch in the Biographical Album of Otoe & Cass Counties Nebraska (1889) [1]

"[H]e enlisted in the Union service December, 1861, and was assigned to duty in Company B, 1st Maine Cavalry, as farrier. He joined the regiment in camp at Augusta, where they remained three or four months, and in 1862 they started for the South and were attached to the Army of the Potomac. It is a historical fact that the 1st Maine Cavalry took part in more battles then any other cavalry regiment in the Army of the Potomac, participating in thirty-six engagements, being nearly all in which that army was engaged. His first term of service expiring, he re-enlisted for three years. At the end of two years he again re-enlisted as a veteran in the same regiment. In July, 1863, he was transferred into the Navy, where he served until the close of the war. His duty in the latter service was in the Revenue Marine, and confined principally to the Delaware River."

About six months after the war ended, he went to Iowa to try farming, and there he met his future wife (and third cousin) Harriet E. Sawyer. "His first venture in Iowa was not a success, for there he lost $700, all he had in the world. Believing that Nebraska offered greater advantages than Iowa he had decided to make one more venture" and this time succeeded.

"[F]ive children have been born to them: Abbie Eldora, Willie M., Helen, Ernest Lee and Frank."

"The father of our subject, Samuel M., Sr., was born in Otisfield, Cumberland County, Maine. He was engaged in the mercantile business in Casco, Me., until 1888, when he retired from the business and still resides in Casco. The mother was Abigail Hayden, and was born at Gray, Cumberland Co., Me. She died in 1887, aged seventy-nine years. A family of four children were born to his parents, named: Clara; Harriet, who died at the age of thirty-nine years, Samuel M. our subject, and Helen. Clara is now the wife of Frank Cook, Esq., and resides in Casco, Me.; Helen is a widow of a soldier who was killed in the late Rebellion and resides in Portland, Me. The ancestors of Mr. Holden were from England and originally settled in Massachusetts, from which State they removed to Maine."

Research Notes

  • The above bio gives his birthplace as Casco, Maine, but a Maine birth record gives it as Raymond (Maine).
  • It appears that he was hospitalized for a while in 1864 with typhoid fever, in a naval hospital in Philadelphia.
  • His first term of service in the Civil War was as farrier in the 1st Regiment, Maine Cavalry, Company B.[2]

Sources

  1. www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/pbco/index.htm
  2. National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/>, acquired 2007.
  • Lillian Harrisville. Personal recollection, early 1980's, as told to Sue Rattray. Notes in the possession of Sue Rattray.
  • Ernest Lee Holden. The Genealogy of the Maineland Holdens. Manuscript family tree dated around 1955. Copy in the possession of Sue Rattray made in the 1980's from copy in the possession of Mabel Gravlin (now deceased).
  • Maine State Archives. Maine Birth Records, 1715-1922, Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine.
  • US Census. Year: 1850; Census Place: Casco, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M432_249; Page: 128B; Image: 249
  • US Census. Year: 1860; Census Place: Casco, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M653_437; Page: 29; Family History Library Film: 803437
  • Film: 004639552. Ancestry.com. U.S., Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: United States, Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
  • Volume and Year Range: Vol 16: 1843-1868. Ancestry.com. Registers of Patients at Naval Hospitals, 1812-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Department of the Navy. Case Files for Patients at Naval Hospitals and Registers Thereto: Registers of Patients 1812–1929. Series A4097. Textual records. NAI: 2745846 Record Group 52: Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1812–1975. The National Archives at Washington, D.C.
  • Ancestry.com. Iowa, Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Iowa, Marriages. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 1028402, Reference ID: 2:3JQCWTS
  • US Census. Year: 1870; Census Place: Elmwood, Cass, Nebraska; Roll: M593_828; Page: 162B; Family History Library Film: 552327
  • US Census. Year: 1880; Census Place: Elmwood, Cass, Nebraska; Roll: 744; Page: 259C; Enumeration District: 270
  • US Census. Year: 1900; Census Place: Center, Cass, Nebraska; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0002; FHL microfilm: 1240918
  • U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131197766




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