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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           WILLIAM H. HOLMES, farmer, section 36, Winsor Township, was born
        Nov. 1, 1812, in New Jersey. He was reared on a P farm, as was his
        father and grandfather before him. His father, EDWARD HOLMES, was
        killed in the war of 1812, when the subject of this sketch was a
        baby. In 1824 the family of his mother removed to Niagara Co.,
        N.Y., and settled at Royalton Center.
           Since he was 12 years old MR. HOLMES has managed his own
        affairs, as his mother died soon after her removal to Royalton
        Center. He went, after the event of her death, to Lockport in that
        county, where he obtained employment on the canal. The now populous
        city had but two houses when he first made the acquaintance of the
        site where it now stands. In 1830 he bought a residence and lived
        there until 1868. He operated on the Erie Canal nearly 40 years,
        and became the owner of two boats, one of which was practically in
        charge of his daughter, MERCY, and she was skilled in the matter of
        management, and was accustomed, in the absence of a steersman, to
        put on a coat and perform the duty herself. He owred several farms
        in Niagara County at one time.
           In 1868 he came to Winsor Township and bought 1,000 acres of
        timbered land, on which he has devoted much time to lumbering. He
        has cleared a considerable proportion of his land, and has several
        hundred acres for sale. He made the transit from Lockport hereby
        means of sleighs, coming with three teams. They traversed lumber
        routes and found their way to their final destination by means of
        blazed trees. At that time MR. HOLMES was in circumstances of ease,
        but he has found himself considerably hampered by the heavy tax-
        ation to which he has been subjected. He is the owner of a steam
        saw-mill.
           His marriage to ANNA SNADIKER took place in December, 1834, and
        they have had eight children: LEANDER A., born Aug. 19, 1836, died
        Dec. 24, 1878, at Sebewaing, and is there buried; JOHN was born May
        30, 1838, and died before he was four years of age. MERCY ANNA was
        born April 25, 1842; MARY ANN was born Oct. 9, 1844, and died in
        December, 1852; WILLIAM H., Feb. 14, 1846; JASPER N., April 22,
        1848; M. V. was born Nov. 15, 1850, and died in March, 1851; WESLEY
        W. was born Aug. 30, 1852. The children were all born in Niagara
        County. Their mother was born April 1, 1816, in New Jersey, and is
        of German descent. She is the child of ABRAM and THANKFUL (LINDSAY)
        SNADIKER. Her father died in Niagara County, in 1840. Her mother
        died in September, 1882, in Winsor Township, and was 88 years of
        age at the time of her death.
           In addition to his land in Winsor, MR. HOLMES has 160 acres in
        Brookfield Township, section 1, with 60 acres cleared.

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