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The History of Oceana County, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1882

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           HORACE J. HOLMES, contractor and builder, was born in Erie
         County, Pa., December 19, 1824, and received his education
         and a thorough training in the trade of cabinet making, in
         his native place, where he resided until he was in his nine-
         teenth year, when he went to Buffalo, N.Y., for a year, work-
         ing at his trade. He then spent a year in Tompkins County, 
         N.Y., and in December, 1845, he went to Wisconsin, where he
         resided until he came to Hart, with the exception of some
         years in the army and a year in 1874 spent in Kansas in se-
         curing a homestead, after which he returned to Oshkosh, Wis.,
         and in April, 1878, came to Hart, where he has ever since
         resided, and has been quite successful in business, having
         drawn plans and erected the best buildings in the village
         and vicinity. He enlisted in August, 1861, in the Tenth Wis-
         consin Infantry, serving three years as musician, when he
         was promoted to a second Lieutenantcy in Hancock's veteran
         corps, still in the Army of the Cumberland. Although escap-
         ing without serious wounds, MR. HOLMES suffered from the
         long marches, and received a pension on account of physical
         disablity caused thereby. He married, April 15, 1848, DIANA
         CAHILL, who died in February, 1850, and re-married June 15,
         1851, CATHERINE CAHILL. He has one surviving child, KATE,
         born February 14, 1875. MR. H. is a prominent Freemason
         and Odd Fellow.
         
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