National Republican., 1883-09-10
HON. D. P. HOLLOWAY DEAD
A Prominent Public Man and q PhianthrOpis
Passes Away.
Extended Sketch OF mn Active and Use-
fuI Life.

Judge ID. =. Holloway died at his residence,
No. Cos + street northwest yesterday morn
ing at o'clock, after an illness of about a
month. Ills body will be taken TO Richmond,
Ind, this morning on the 8 o'clock train, via
the Baltimore and Ohio railway. Tho family
will accompany tho remains. Tho carly
hour will prevent any extensive prep
arations for the purpose of cscorting the
remains TO the railroad station Oh tile part of
tho Minnehaha lodge Of Good Templars, of
which Judge Holloway was n charter mem
bcr A few representatives, however, will
accompany the body to tho depot. Tho
funeral services will he conducted IN Rich
mond by the Society Of Friends, of which the
deceased was u member
David T.. Holloway was born at Wayno5-
willie, Warren county Ohio, Dec. q, 1909. In
1873 his father, David Holloway, removed
with his family to Cincinnati, whore he en-
gagged in the mercantile business. In 1923
they removed to Wayne county, Ind, and
settled on n farm four miles east of Richmond.
Two or three years later they removed TO
Richmond, where his father resumed the
mercantile business. At the age of 10 young
Holloway commenced his apprenticeship at
tho printing business in Richmond, with Ed
ward s. buxton, publisher of tho PHbiic Lcdgcr.
He aftorwnrd completed his apprenticeship in
the Office of tho Cincinnati Gazette, during the
timo that paper was edited by Charles Ham
mond, tho ablcst editor the Gdsciic over had,
and he was nevor happier than when detail
ing "reminiscences of that distinguished editor,
whose confidence he enjoyed up to the
date of his DEATH Mr.. Holloway had for
follow apprentice at that time tho lato
Lewis ID. Campbell, Of Hamilton, Ohio, and
tho Comloy brothers, who conducted the
Dayton Journal for so many years. His con-
II 4 EaN
Richmond Pdiiudium commenced in 1888, ana
ho continued as its editor for over thirty
years, during which time he occupied many
public and private positions of trust and
honor. In lSi3 he was elected u mombcr of
the state legislature, and the year following
state senator, which Office ho held for six
years. lie served as presidential eector in
the campaigns of 1913 and 1851. In 1910 he
was appointed by President Taylor examiner
of land offices. In 1854 he was elected repre-
sentative in congress- and in 1861 he was APP
pointed commissioner of patents, which Of
flee he resigned in 1850 because he was not
in accord with the administration of Andrew
Johnson.
While in congress he was chairman of the
committee on agriculture, and succeeded for
the first time in bringing that committee into
prominence, and he secured from congress tho
first appropriation of any magnitude for the
purchase of seeds and tho benefit of agricul-
tureJ 1t was out of this fund that sorghum
sugar cane seed was purchased and that i'm
Jportant branch of industry introduced into
this country. From 1852 to 1861 Mr.. Hollo-
way, in addition to his duties as editor of the
PdNd6unl, edited and published i'll connection
with his now venerable partner b. w. Davis,
esq, who still survives him, the Indiana
Farmer then the only agricultural paper in
the state. They sold the Farmer when Mr..
Holloway was appointed commissioner of
natpnfS tlnrnbV pnmnpllpd IN
Washington.
Since his resignation as commissioner of
patents he has practiced as Il patent attorney
in this city, and has always occupied promi-
nent position in social and political circles
here. For the past forty hears he has occu-
pied conspicuous position among the lead
ing advocates of Temperance in the United
States, and devoted much time to tho ad-
vancement of that reform, and for several
years previous to- his death he was the chief
officer Of several of the leading temperance
societies at the federal capital, and was for
considerable time president Of the Indiana
republican association here, which position
he relinquished because of falling years about
one year ago.
He held n birthright in the Friends, or
what is more generally known as the Quaker
church, and while in all religious matters he
was omancipated from mere sectarian belief,
having charity for the opinions of others, he
were conspicuous for their piety and devotion
to the church and its peculiar tenets.
Mr.. Holloway was married Nov. 49, 1884, to
Jane Ann Paulson who died Dee. s, 1864,
aged 81 years. He never married again.
Their children were John NJ, who died in
1874; William r., Dayton, who died in 1853;
Henry c., Allen T., Charles p. Sarah, who
died in 1881, and Mary Ann, who died in
1883. He had four sisters and three brothers,
only one of whom, Jesse Holloway, survives
him.
No man did more to mold public opinion in
eastern Indiana during the period he was in
public life than he did, both through tho
columns of the PdliddiHm and on the stump.
He is almost the last prominent representa-
tive of the old whig party of eastern Indiana.
Mr.. Holloway was no less remarkable for
his social qualities than for his integrity and
genuine manhood. As n companion he was
the delight of his friends, and no man ever
had better or truer. They loved him from
the beginning aud loved him to the last, His
hospitality was unbounded and no guest ever
departed without feeling better for the visit.
Malice was not in his nature, lie was con-
gcnially employed only in the exchange Of
good offices and the doing Of kindly deeds.
lie passed away full of years. full of honors,
pure in character, and no man has left a
better example to those who are to come after
him. His time had fully come-the three
score and ten making the ordinary period of
human life had been passcd-hc has gone to
rest.
His health has boon failing since the death
of his youngest child and daughter Mamie
last November. His first complication being
fatty degeneration of tho heart, which was
followed by kidney troubles, with symptoms
of dropsy, and finally paralysis came aud re-
licved his suffering, which he had borne with
equanimity aud patience.
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The members of the Columbia Boat club
are requested TO attend the funeral of tho late
member johnson NJ. Elliott, at the Ascension
church this evening at 3 o'clock