Would you mind if I add this to the GenConnect Biography page? or would you
like to add it?
Debby
beheler(a)netusa1.net
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/index.html - Miami Co., INGenweb
At 07:22 PM 6/14/1999 -0400, you wrote:
Hi, Chris!
You have a GREAT Miami County surname and one that is very well known in
the area. I attended Holman Elementary School in Peru, Indiana.
Here's some info for you on JOSEPH HOLMAN. This is from Brant & Fuller's
1877 "History of Miami County, Indiana", pages 434-435.
JOSEPH HOLMAN. Prominent among the pioneers of Miami County was Joseph
Holman, a name familiar to all the early residents of the city of Peru. He
was a native of Kentucky and son of George Holman, who figured conspicuously
in the early annals of the "Dark and Bloody Ground" locating there many
years ago when the country was in the possession of the Indians. When quite
young he was stolen by the savages who kept him a prisoner until his
seventeenth year, in the meantime becoming habituated to all the modes and
customs of the tribe, with the majority of which he appears to have been on
terms of greatest friendship. He left Kentucky in an early day emigrating
to Indiana and settling in Wayne County, where his death occurred a number
of years ago at the advanced age of one hundred and seven years. Joseph
Holman came to Indiana about the year 1820 and located in Wayne County,
where he continued to reside until 1836. In the latter year removed to
Miami County and settling in Miamisport, purchased a tract of 640 acres of
land on the Wabash, upon the eastern half of which the original plat of Peru
was subsequently laid out by William N. Hood. A large portion of the
western half is included in the city limits, and the entire tract now
represents a value of several million dollars. Mr. Holman traded
extensively in lands and all kinds of real estate and was prominently
associated with with the early growth of Peru and Miami County. He was land
commissioner at Fort Wayne during the administration of John Quincy Adams,
but soon after the inauguration of Andrew Jackson was relieved of the office
for political reasons. He was a man of recognized ability in the various
spheres of life, an active politician, and took part in the convention which
framed the present constitution of Indiana, having been elected a delegate
to the same. He married Lydia Overman by whom he had the following
children: Mary, Soloman, Martha and Elizabeth, deceased, and Rachel,
Margaret, William and George, living. In about the year 1839 he disposed of
his interests in Miami County and returned to Wayne County, where his death
occurred in 1872 at the age of eighty-four years.
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Nancy