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Holt, John Homer (1857-1916)
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Source: Genealogical and Personal History of the 
        Upper Monongahela Valley West Virginia
by James Morton Callahan
New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912
Volume III 

Pages 925-926, John Homer Holt

Hon. John Homer Holt, son of Alfred T. and Maria A. (Stone) Holt, was
born June 19, 1857, in Gilmer county, West Virginia. He obtained his
education in the common schools, completing the same at Preston
Academy at Kingwood. He then followed teaching for five years, three
of which were at Kingwood. This was but a stepping-stone to the study
of law; his cherished ambition. He read law under Brown & McGrew in
1876. Mr. Brown was a distinguished lawyer and a member of congress.
George H. McGrew became rector of a Protestant Episcopal church at
Cleveland, Ohio. After concluding his law studies under James A.
Brown, Mr. Holt was admitted to the bar and began practice at
Kingwood, where he remained two years, then removed his office to
Grafton in 1881. Here he has practiced his chosen profession ever
since, with the exception of three years which he spent in
Washington, D. C. Judge Holt has been an active Republican all of his
adult years. He has been chairman of Republican conventions at
Huntington, one was in 1892, which nominated Thomas A. Davis, of
Grafton, for governor, and in which Mr. Holt was instrumental in
bringing forward the candidate for nomination, and campaigned
throughout the entire state for his election that fall. He was also
chairman of the Republican convention that nominated George W.
Atkinson, the first Republican governor since the civil war. He was
also a member of the state legislature from Preston county, West
Virginia, in 1878 and 1896; was nominated in primary for prosecuting
attorney of Taylor county, but before the election occurred he had
been made the nominee for circuit judge of the third circuit and was
elected. He made an excellent and truly acceptable judge, was
reelected in 1904, and is still presiding as judge of the circuit. As
a jurist his standing is of the best and his record both public and
private is without reproach. His is the largest district in the
state, yet notwithstanding this fact, he has the name of keeping up
with the business of his dockets, nearer than any other judge who has
much less business to transact. He has reflected honor on the bench
and bar of West Virginia. Among his other public duties, he is one of
the directors and a regent of the School for the Deaf and Dumb.

Judge Holt has been twice married, (first), on February 22, 1886, at
Washington, D. C., to Maria Isabel Chancy, born in 1863, at Annapolis,
Maryland, daughter of Andrew W. and Katherine (Barber) Chaney.
Children: John Homer, Ellen W., Margaret, and James Neil. He married
(second), November 1, 1911, Mrs. Nannie E. Brown, of Beverly, West
Virginia.

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2nd MARRIAGE, Page 158 Randolph County WV
John Homer Holt (age 55) of Taylor County WV and Mrs. Nanie I. Evans
Brown (age 50) of Randolph County WV were united in marriage on the
1st day of November 1911 in Elkins WV by Frederick H. Barron,
Minister. He was born in Preston County WV and she was born in
Campbell County Va.

NOTE: John Homer Holt's birthplace (county) is different on his
marriage record from the biography.

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DEATH RECORDS

John Homer Holt died March 25, 1916 in Elkins, Randolph County WV
cause-of-death: Paresis

1st wife, Maria Isabel Chancy Holt died on May 21, 1910 
(at the age of 45) in Baltimore MD. 
Cause of death: inflamation of the bowels.

2nd wife, Nannie E. Holt died Jan 21, 1923 
(at the age of 65yr-22dys) in Elkins, WV. 
Cause of death: Chronic Toxic Nephritis. 
Nannie was born Dec 19, 1857 in Va, 
daughter of James D. Evans and Elizabeth Crawford.
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