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.


Page 505.

HON. ISAAC HOLLOWAY was born in the southern part of Virginia, earn 
Fredericksburgh, Stafford county, December, 1805, being one of two children 
born to Nathan and Anna Holloway. Mr. Holloway was reared on the paternal 
farm. Had few school privileges. At the age of twenty-one he came on horse-
back across the mountains into Ohio, locating in Flushing township. In that 
day this was a long and tedious journey, and the end of it was considered a 
great ways west. Mr. Holloway taught school until he entered the mercantile 
business at Rock Hill. By strict honesty and a determined purpose to win he 
came to be one of the most respected citizens of the township. After some 
time spent in business at Rock Hill he removed to Flushing, which, at that 
time, was a very small town, here he opened a general store and continued 
the mercantile business until his death. He also was quite extensively 
interested in land investments, being successful in this, as well as in 
other enterprises. Mr. Holloway had accumulated a large property at the 
time of his death. When he started teaching he was possessed of just 12 1/2 
cents, and like nearly all self-made men, so-called, he was systematic in 
all his arrangements, regular in his habits, and economical in his 
expenditures. He served in the Ohio state senate in the sessions of 1858 
and '59, and major of Ohio militia. For thirteen years he was a justice of 
the peace, and his decisions were never reversed. He died July 23, 1885, 
being sick only a short time. In May, 1850, he was married to Ann Eliza 
Norton, who now survives him, residing in the comfortable home which he 
left her in Flushing. By a previous marriage Mr. Holloway had three 
children, they are: Mrs. Atkinson, Otho and Nathan, the latter a resident 
of Canton, Ohio. Mr. Holloway's parents were members of the Baptist church, 
and he was reared under that pursuasion.