Lewis Holloway From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 890.

LANCASTER

LEWIS HOLLOWAY, farmer; has been a resident of Grant Co. since 1863. A native of Livingston Co., N. Y., born Sept. 30, 1832, a son of John and Lucy Burt Holloway, both native of Massachusetts, of English descent. He was married to Miss Cornelia Stone, of Troy, Mich, Oct. 24, 1855, a daughter of William and Harriet Morris Stone. He came West in the spring of 1863, and purchased 1,000 acres of wild prairie land, two miles south of Lancaster, breaking 400 acres the first season, 130 of which he planted to wheat, and received a crop of 3,200 bushels, which he sold for $2.10 per bushel. His farm cost him $13,000, nearly one half of which he paid with his first years' crop. After five years he sold his land for $40 per acre, to George Stewart and Edward McKinney. Mr. Holloway is a cattle dealer, having followed it twenty years. He bought his present home and farm of 340 acres in 1871. He has for several years been alderman, and is at present.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.