Frank HOLT

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Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Brown, Delaware, Ohio; Roll: M593_1196; Page: 250; Image: 96.
Frank was Frances
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Brown, Delaware, Ohio; Roll: T9_1012; Family History Film: 1255012; Page: 374.1000; Enumeration District: 108; Image: 0249.

FRANK HOLT, who is successfully engaged in the great basic art of agriculture in Peru township, Morrow county. Ohio, was born in Cumberland county, Illinois, on the 27th of December, 1864 and is a son of Evan and Hattie (Leonard) Holt, both of whom are deceased. Evan Holt was a son of John II. and Mahala Holt and his birth occurred in Chester township, this county, on the 21st of June, 1839. John H. Holt was born on the llth of May, 1808, and his wife was born on the 10th of October, 1807. They were the parents of thirteen children. John Holt, was a son of Evan and Chanty Holt, the latter of whom were the great-grandparents of him to whom this sketch is dedicated, the respective dates of their births being June 9, 1764, and September 14, 1764. John Holt, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a pioneer in Chester township, Morrow county, and he was a farmer by occupation, having reclaimed a fine farm from the virgin wilderness. Evan Holt became the father of four children, two of whom are living in 1911 ; Frank Holt, the immediate subject of this review; and Emma, who is the wife of Harry Fleming, of Delaware county, Ohio. Frank Holt was a child of but two years of age at the time of his parents' removal from Illinois to Delaware county, Ohio, where he was reared on a farm and where he attended the public schools until he had attained to the age of eighteen years. At that time he left home and began to work in a machine shop at Delaware, Ohio, where he was employed by the day and where he continued to be employed for some three years, during which time he saved about four hundred and fifty dollars. In 1890 he rented a farm in Morrow county, where he cared for his aged father, assisted by sister Emma, until his death, which occurred November 4, 1904. Thereafter he entered into a partnership alliance with Orson A. Lee in the agricultural line of enterprise, in which they built up a fine business and cleared considerable money. In April, 1901 Mr. Holt again turned his energies to farming and in that year purchased the fine estate of sixty-six and two-thirds acres of land on which he now resides. This is one of the best improved farms in Peru township, and in connection with diversified agriculture Mr. Holt is deeply interested in the raising and marketing of high- grade stock, his specialties being cattle and sheep. In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Holt to Miss Effie Adams, who was born in Delaware county on the 25th of August, 1873, a daughter of Augustus Adams. She was reared to maturity on the home farm and was educated in the district schools and in the Galena High School, in which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1890. For six years she was a popular and successful teacher in the public schools in Delaware county and for one year she taught in Morrow county. To Mr. and Mrs. Holt have been born three children, namely: Homer, whose birth occurred on the 27th of April, 1904; Nancy, born November 19, 1907; and Atlee, born October 14, 1910. Mr. Holt is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the Democratic party in his political proclivities and for several terms he was incumbent of the office of township assessor. In 1910 he served as land appraiser of Peru township and he has ever shown a deep interest in all matters relating to higher education in this section, being at the present time, in 1911, a director on the school board. Mr. and Mrs. Holt as citizens are accorded a high degree of popular confidence and esteem in this community.

Name: Frank Holt
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Death date: 01 Oct 1923
Death place: Ashley, Delaware Co., Ohio
Birth date: 27 Dec 1865
Estimated birth year:
Birth place: Il
Age at death: 57 years 9 months 4 days
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Race or color: Caucasian
Street address:
Occupation: Farmer
Residence:
Burial date: 03 Oct 1923
Burial place:
Cemetery name: Marlborough
Spouse name: Effie Holt
Father name: Evan Holt
Father titles:
Father birth place: Ohio
Mother name: Harriet Lro...
Mother titles:
Mother birth place: Ohio
GSU film number: 1992393
Digital GS number: 4000582
Image number: 1173
Reference number: fn 59391
Collection: Ohio Deaths 1908-1953

Frank married Effie ADAMS in 1897. (Effie ADAMS was born on 25 Aug 1873, died on 16 Oct 1954 and was buried in Marlborough Cem., Troy, Delaware, Ohio, USA.)