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MORRIS C. HOLT, farmer, P. O. Ono, Pierce county, was born in Sadsbury
township, Crawford county, Pa., May 1, 1838, a son of Eleazer Holt, who
was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 7, 1810, and married Melissa Sexton.
Five children were born to them: Anna M., now Mrs. Maxwell; Frances F.,
who became Mrs. Denham, now deceased; Clinton C., Henry S., and our subject.
When seven years old Morris C. moved with his parents to Dodge county, Wis.,
and lived there until twenty-one years of age.  In 1859 he bought a farm and 
worked on it until September, 1862, when he enlisted in the Tenth Wisconsin
battery and went to Nashville, Tenn.  He was in the department of the 
Cumberland, and with Sherman in his march to the sea.  He participated in 
various engagements but was not wounded.  At the close of the war he came
home and married Permelia, daughter of G. and F. Wood, and settled on his 
farm.  Three children have been born to them, namely; Milo E., died February
15, 1889; Fanny J. and Emil E., all of whom live at home.  There were only
three families in what is now Union township when he came here, and he 
helped organize the township when there was only fourteen voters in it. The
territory embraced in the township was such a wilderness at that time that
the chairman of the meeting and one other voter got lost on their way to the 
polls and did not reach there until late in the day.  Of these fourteen
voters seven enlisted in 1862, served through the war and lived to return 
home.  He was the first township clerk, and held that office three years, and
was treasurer three years.  He helped to organize the first school and was
the first district clerk, and has been almost continuously in office.  He 
has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church a great many years, and
has always held some office in the same.  In politics he is a republican.

--Taken from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records fo Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens,
Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by George Forrester.
Published in Chicago, Illinois by A. Warner. Publisher. 1891-2. Page 652