Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Pendleton Co. ROBERT W. HOLLAND, a native of Brown County, Ohio, was born June 7, 1855, and is a son of Robert and Mary E. (McCallom) Holland, natives of Hamilton County, Ohio. Robert Holland died in 1855, at the age of thirty-seven, and his wife is still living in the eastern part of Pendleton County. Thomas Holland, grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia and was a soldier in the war of 1812; he died in 1859, aged seventy-eight, leaving a widow, Eliza Holland, who died in February, 1886, at the advanced age of ninety-eight, having lived sixty years on the same farm in Clermont County, Ohio. After receiving a common-school education, Robert W. Holland finished his education at Central Normal College, Danville, Ind. He read law with Hon. J. T. Simons, at Falmouth, Ky., beginning in 1878, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1881; two years later he began the practice of his profession at Falmouth, and in August, 1886, he was elected county attorney on the Democratic ticket, which office he still holds. He was married in October, 1880, to Miss Anna Tomlin, of Falmouth, and to their union have been born three children: Newman E., aged five years; Mary N., aged three years, and Stella, three months old. Mr. Holland is a member of the A.O.U.W. and also a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Holland McCallom Tomlin Simons = Brown-OH Hamilton-OH Clermont-OH VA IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/pendleton/holland.rw.txt