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John Holt (1816 - 1880)

John Holt
Born in Bradford Twp., Clearfield County, PA.map
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died at age 63 [location unknown]
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Biography

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Birth

Birth:
User ID: 5E48D10B-AC77-42E1-A69A-AFE319C84D31
Record ID Number: MH:IF4628
Date: 5 SEP 1816
Place: Bradford Twp., Clearfield County, PA.

Death

Death:
User ID: 3533E111-FB64-44D7-A317-A4B2B50F8D88
Record ID Number: MH:IF4629
Date: 9 MAR 1880

Record ID Number

Record ID Number: MH:I701

User ID

User ID: 7D0992AD-F8F9-4F9D-B27D-052C184BA445

UPD

UPD 13 OCT 2012 16:26:16 GMT-5

Burial

Burial:
User ID: 4AAEFECD-14FB-4B7E-9ADE-ACD9D15C4F14
Record ID Number: MH:IF4630
Place: Dale Cemetery, Bradford Twp., Clearfield County, PA.

Note

Note: #N201
Note: #N202

Sources

  • Source: S133 Record ID Number: MH:S133 User ID: E1D2C413-E59F-4A60-B66F-9F4C29C280B6 Author: William R. Billotte Title: William R. Billotte, B. 10/10/1943 Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree CONT Family site: William R. Billotte, B. 10/10/1943 Web Site CONT Family tree: Billotte_Maines Family Tree Media: 36280611-132 Type: Smart Matching Record ID Number: MH:SC784 Page: [Private] Holt Event: Smart Matching Role: 132046579 Data: Date: 21 OCT 2012 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
  • Source: S36 Record ID Number: MH:S36 User ID: 498C57D9-28B2-4C87-BB3C-36A4FF0205BD Author: William R. Billotte Title: William R. Billotte, B. 10/10/1943 Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree CONT Family site: William R. Billotte, B. 10/10/1943 Web Site CONT Family tree: v11t3177 Media: 36280611-64 Type: Smart Matching Record ID Number: MH:SC783 Page: John Holt Event: Smart Matching Role: 64024281 Data: Date: 13 OCT 2012 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

Notes

Note N201Birth location from Swoope's '20th Century History of Clearfield County'. Also occupational info. He was first postmaster at Wallaceton, had been a school teacher, justice of the peace(15 years) and had held other township offices.
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 477 & 478.
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REUBEN HOLT, one of the leading and best known citizens of Graham township,
Clearfield county, Pa., which has been his home for fifty-six years, owns a
valuable farm of 115 acres, situated ten miles east of Clearfield and has other
public and private interests in this section. He was born in Bradford township,
Clearfield county, Pa., in 1851, and is a son of John and Drusilla Holt.
John Holt was also born in Bradford township, a son of Thomas Holt, a native
of England, who was a very early settler there, where his life was subsequently
spent as a farmer and lumberman. John Holt was reared and educated in Bradford
township and became a school teacher. He was a man of much public spirit, a
natural leader, and he was very frequently elected to public offices of
responsibility. For fifteen years he was a justice of the peace in Graham
township and at different times efficiently served in about all of the other
township offices. It was through his enterprise that Graham township w
organized and he was the first postmaster at Wallaceton. After a long, busy and
honorable life, he died on the above mentioned farm, in the spring of 1880. His
widow survived until 1891.
Reuben Holt was three years old when his parents settled in Graham township
and here he was reared. He attended the public schools and later, preparing for
the career of a teacher, became a student in the Millersville State Normal
School. Subsequently he taught one term of school at Wolf Run, one at
Williamsgrove, one at Wallaceton and one at Stoneville, meeting with excellent
results. He then embarked in the mercantile business at Osceola, Pa., where he
remained for two years and then returned to Graham township, where he has been
interested in farming and lumbering ever since. Mr. Holt, like his late father,
has been a very active citizen. He was assistant postmaster while his father
served as postmaster at Wallaceton, and in 1900 he was appointed postmaster at
Sington, the duties being familiar on account of his former training. In 1908
he was appointed a justice of the peace, on the Democratic ticket and secretary
of the school board. Mr. Holt also conducts a general store at Sington and is
agent for the Graham township Telephone Company.
In 1874 Mr. Holt was married to Miss Margaret Forcey, of Graham township, and
they started to housekeeping at Wallaceton. To them were born a large and
unusually talented family, all of whom have been given educational advantages
and a number of whom have developed into successful teachers. The following is
the family record: H. G., who married Miss Jennie Donaldson, of Philadelphia,
and has three children - Donald R., Margaret and Graydon; C. P., formerly a
teacher in Clearfield county, is now district attorney, residing at Shawnee
City, Okla., married Miss Mabel Davis, and they have one son, C. P., Jr.; Anna
Edna, who taught five terms of school in Clearfield county, is the wife of
Walter Harker, of New Jersey, and they have two children - Evelyn and Margaret;
Clyde F., who married Miss Grace McGovern, of Philadelphia, and they had one
son, Reuben John, who died in infancy; Mabel M., who taught eight terms of
school in Clearfield county, is the wife of Roy Woodside, of Boggs township, and
they have one son, Thomas C.; Ora B., who taught three terms of scho
Clearfield county, married Frank Smith, and they have one son, Leslie C
Minnie, who taught three terms of school in Clearfield county, married Charles
Kreder, of New Jersey, and they have three sons - Le Nard, Karl and Kenneth;
Grover C., superintendent of gas plant at Shawnee, Okla., who is married and has
one daughter, Maurine Estell; Lloyd M., who is a student in Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, previously taught school; May C., a teacher w
attending Wilson College, at Chambersburg, Pa.; Vida N., who is a student in
Perkiomen Seminary, at Pemsburg, Pa.; and Carrie V., who is also a student at
Perkiomen Seminary. Mr. Holt and his family attend the Methodist Episcopal
church in Graham township, of which he is a trustee. The first wife of Mr. Holt
died in 1893. In 1895 he was married to a widow, Mrs. Ella M. Stillman of
Lewistown, Ill., who was born in Columbus, O., but reared and educat
Illinois. Mr. Holt has long been identified with the Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, and is a member of Lodge No. 885, at Sington, Pa.
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Record ID Number: MH:N400
PRIN MH:I701




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