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| HORACE J. HOLMES, contractor and builder, was born in Erie Co., Pa., December 19, 1824, and received his education and a thorough training in the trade of cabinet making, in his native place, where he resided until he was in his nineteenth year, when he went to Buffalo, N.Y., for a year, working at his trade. He then spent a year in Tompkins ?County, N.Y., and in December 1845, he went to Wisconsin, where he resided until he came to Hart, with the exception of some years in the army and a year in 1874 spent in Kansas in securing a homestead, after which he returned to Oshkosh, Wis., and in April, 1878, came to Hart, where he has ever since resided, and has been quite successful in business, having drawn plans and erected the best buildings in the village and vicinity. He enlisted in August, 1861, in the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry, serving three years as musician, when he was promoted to a second lieutenantcy in Hancock's veteran corps, still in the Army of the Cumberland. Although escaping without serious wounds, Mr. Holmes suffered from the long marches, and received a pension on account of physical disability caused thereby. He married, April 15, 1848, Diana Cahill, who died in February, 1850, and re-married June 15, 1851, Catherine Cahill. He has one surviving child, Kate, born February 14, 1875. Mr. H. is a prominent Freemason and Odd Fellow. |