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LINCOLN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: HOLLEY, Elisha Walter
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PJAFLA@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974.
ELISHA WALTER HOLLEY M D a native of
Lincoln county born September 10, 1851 is a son of James Avis and Margaret
(Holster) Holley. He was a cadet in the West Virginia University three years.
James Holley, father of Elisha was a sheriff of Lincoln county four years,
having previously been sheriff of Cabell County, West Virginia many years. He
was also deputy U. S. marshall and traveling minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church: and was one of the earliest and most prominent settlers of
Carroll district. Elisha W. Holley owns about 600 acres of fine farming land,
50 acres of which is excellent bottom land. A portion of the land is heavily
timbered with pine, poplar, maple, locust, beech and walnut. The farm abounds
in cannel coal, building stone and iron ore. The land is located on Mud
river, five miles from Hamlin and upon it is a large orchard and a medicinal
spring. Mr. Holley attended the first course of lectures at Ohio Medical
College in Cincinnati, June 28, 1882; he graduated from the Lousiville,
Kentucky, Medical College. he is physician and surgeon attending to all
calls, night or day, promptly. His address is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West
Virginia.
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