BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Pages 694-695.

DANIEL HOLAHAN, an estimable citizen of Smith township, is a native of Ireland,
born in the year 1824. He was well educated in his native land, by the church,
and became classical assistant at the Queen's college, at Limerick. On coming
to this country in 1853, he was here only three weeks when he entered St.
Joseph's college, at Buffalo. Owing to a trifling misunderstanding he left
there and removed to Steubenville, where he was married. In 1858 he came to
his present place of residence, but remained there at that time but one year,
going to Kentucky and living there until the time of the rebellion. He then
crossed to Ohio, and has resided in Smith township for the past twenty-three
years. He bought the farm he now lives on in 1879. Mr. Holahan was married June
7, 1857, to Honora Keehan, of Steubenville, and they have had three sons and
three daughters, the eldest of whom, a girl, died in 1883. The youngest, a
daughter, is a student of stenography at Duff's college, of Pittsburgh. The
sons are telegraph operators, and one is engaged as a train dispatcher at
Allegheny City, Penn. Mr. Holahan and family are members of the Catholic church.