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Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Adoniram J. Holmes
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:42:26 EST

ADONIRAM J. HOLMES was born on the 2d of March, 1842, in Wayne County, Ohio.
 His parents removed to Wisconsin while he was a child and there he entered
Milton College but before finishing the course enlisted in the Union army,
serving until the close of the war.  Returning to Janesville he studied law
and was admitted to the bar but afterwards took the full course in the Law
Department of the State University of Michigan.  In 1868 he located at Boone,
Iowa.  In 1881 he was elected to the House of the Nineteenth General
Assembly, serving one term.  In 1882 he was elected to Congress on teh
Republican ticket and twice reelected, serving six years.  He died January
23, 1902.


Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
<A HREF="http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/">http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/</A>;
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm
Gerischer Family Web Site:
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