The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-22
LONG A RESIDENT OF COUNTY
Deceased Was One of the First White
Children Born in Pleasant Prairie
Life Was Featured BY Intensive Bus
iness-To be Buried Wednesday.

Christopher d. Holt, one of the
most prominent farmers of Kenosha
county and a man widely known
throughout this section of Wisconsin,
died at his home on the farm in
Pleasant Prairie just after five O'Clock
Monday evening. Death resulted from
a complication Of diseases from which
Mr.. Holt had been suffering for more
than two years. His condition had
been critical since last Sunday after
noon when at his own request he was
removed from the Kenosha hospital
and taken back to his old home in or
der that he might die amidst the
scenes of his life work.
The passing of Mr. Holt brought the
death of man who had been active
ly connected with the development Of
the great agricultural interests Of this
section of the country, man who had
given much to the development of the
stock business in this section Of
Wisconsin.
Mr.. Holt was man of strong friend
ships and strong emnities and his in
tensive pursuit of his business inter
ests had brought him much in the lime
light. The last years of his life had
been clouded with many sensational
court actions, but when the end came
he had gone back to the serenity Of
his early life and with the end came
a great peace.
Christopher D. Holt was son of the
late Loren G. Holt, one Of the earliest
of the pioneer residents of the town
of Pleasant Prairie. He was seventy
six years Of age. He was born on the
farm where he died on December 9th,
1888, and in all of the seventy-six
years he had claimed the farm as his
home. Long before he reached his ma
iority he took an interest in farm life.
Shortly after the death of his father
he had put him in charge of the great
farm he began to be known as stock
raiser. He was one Of the first men
in the state to take up the idea of rails
ing high bred stock and his farm was
stocked with some of the finest horses
and cattle ever brought to Wisconsin.
The development of the land, the rails
ing of better cattle and better horses
became the one great aim Of his life
and he subserved every other interest
to the carrying out of his life amb-
ton. Even when he was close to death
OI1 Mt 10
and he insisted on being carried out
to see the cattle and the horses. He
was an ardent advocate of good roads,
of schools of agriculture, of drainage
districts and of everything which went
to the Improvement of the conditions
of the farmers. To the world at large
he always showed his intensive bust
ness instinct, but a few personal
friends who knew him best found in
him kindly disposed man especially
interested in the advancement of young
men and a man who took a keen per-
sonal satisfaction in the advancement
of those who he knew the best. Few
people knew of the interest that he
took in the relief of people in distress,
but in his recent years he has given
much to aid such cases
Mr.. Holt was a member of Kenosha
Lodge No. AZ, F. and A. M, and Ke-
nosha Chapter No. 8, of the Royal
Arch Masons. He was an active mem
Der of both of these bodies. He was
married on April 80, 1864, to Hattie
A. Rugg and she died some four years
ago. Surviving him is his one son,
Frank Holt, who lives on the farm in
Pleasant Prairie.