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Commemorative Biographical Record
of the counties of 
Huron and Lorain, Ohio
pub. J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago - 1894

         [pg. 529]
         
         LORTON HOLIDAY, the father of our subject, was born in 
       Pompey August 27, 1804. Here and in Steuben he acquired a 
       fair education in the branches taught in those times and 
       places, and on arriving in Ohio taught school for a time. 
       Marrying in 1830, he soon after began hotel keeping in New 
       London, in what was known as the "Asher House." Here E. R. 
       was born. The other children of this marriage were as follows: 
       (1) HULDAH M., born December 4, 1831, is now the wife of 
       HOSEA M. HOOD, and resides in Hartland, Huron Co., Ohio.
	 
         LORTON HOLIDAY, after the death of his wife, continued 
       in the hotel business for a few years, when, his children 
       having found homes (?) with friends and relatives, he went 
       into the new State of Michigan, working at gunsmithing and 
       trading with the Indians, among whom he was often styled--
       on account of his black eyes, swart complexion and heavy 
       black beard "Black Hawk." He was a man of splendid physical 
       proportions, six feet two inches in his stocking feet, and 
       as lithe as a panther. He was on friendly terms always with 
       the Indians, and after settling down at Alma, they always 
       camped upon his land if their rovings brought them in the 
       neighborhood, knowing they were welcome. He lived at Alma, 
       Gratiot Co., Mich., before the township was organized as a 
       township, keeping a sort of "pioneer hotel." He was post-
       master in that place under Buchanan. He died of pneumonia 
       April 25, 1870.
       
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