The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-17
JUSTICE William |. HOLLOWAY BIES
IN HOSPITAL AT long BEACH, CALF.
Had Been on State Supreme
Court Bench For Over "a
Years-Funeral at Helena

than "a years a n associate justice OF
the Montana supreme court, died last
Saturday at a hospital at Long
Beach, Calf. Mr.. Holloway was SO
years of age. He had made BOzeman
his home since 1892.
Accompanied by his son, William
L. Holloway, Jr., the body arrived in
Helena Tuesday, and in that city on
Wednesday funeral services, with the
Rev. J. F. McNamee of the First
Baptist church officiating, were held
in the Scottish Rite Consistory tenn
pie. The services were attended by
intimate friends and acquaintance,
members of the bench and bar from
all parts of Montana, and state and
federal officials. The state capitol
was closed for the afternoon, and
both federal and district courts in
Helena adjourned out of respect for
his memory. Burial was in the For
estvale cemetery six miles north of
Helena.
Mr.. Holloway was a candidate last
fall for reelection, and was returned
to the supreme bench by a handsome
majority. Following the campaign
his health failed, and he was com
PEELED to take an extended rest. He
went to Long Beach, intending later
to sail for the Hawaiian Islands, but
his condition rapidly became more
serious. He was taken to a hospital,
and his son was summoned from
Seattle. Medical skill was of little
avail, however, and he died at 1880
p. m. Saturday.
Of Colonial Stock
William Lawson Holloway was a
native of Missouri, born at Kinks
vile, November 8, 1857, a descend
ant of the Holloways who were CO.
lonial settlers in Virginia. One of
the Virginia Holloways was a dele
gate to the federal constitutional
convention of 1887. Judge HollO-
ways grandfather was John HollO-
way, who was born in Virginia in
1906, and in early life crossed the
mountains into Kentucky and engag-
ed in farming, later moving to a
farm in Monroe county, Missouri. He
died at Moberly in 1895. Judge Hol-
loway's father, Silas N. Holloway,
was born and reared In. Kentucky.
In 1847, at the age Of 20, he volun-
teered for service in the Mexican war
under the command of General Phil
Kearney. At the close of the wal he
located in Monroe county, Missouri.
moving soon afterwards to Adair
county, near Kirksville, where he
spent the rest of his active life as a
farmer. The judges mother was for
merly Charlotte Aired, a Missourian,
who died in 1890.
BOyhOOd Spent ON Farm
Judge Holloway's early life was
spent on his fathers farm. In his
boyhOOd he attended the rural
schools and Afterwards a boarding
school, and subsequently the Stats
Normal school at EIrksville, from
which he was graduated in 1887. Tht
following four years he was princi
pal Of the public school at Crystal
City, Mo. In 1891 he enrolled in tn
University of Michigan law depart
ment and on June 80 the following
year he received his degree Of L. L
b. Soon afterwards he moved t.
Bozeman and opened a law office
Eight years later, in 1900, he wa
elected Judge Of the Ninth judicia
district, comprised Of GallatiI
Rroadwater and Meagher counties
In the mean time, in 1894, he ha
been elected county attorney Of Gala
tin county. He resigned from the dis
trict bench after his election to tn
state supreme court in the fall Q
1892. He was reelected at the clos
of each term as associate justicr
the last time in the November eleC
tions of this year.
Judge Holloway was married Eel
ruary Is, 1898, at Butte, to Mi;
Lalia Holmes, a daughter Of DR.. ]
E. and Mrs. Sarah (Hall) HOlme
DR.. Holmes was an army surgeon U
to 1870, stationed at various posts
the West. Retiring from the arm
he practiced medicine at differel
times at Helena, Deer Lodge, al
Butte. Mrs. Holloway was a grad
ate of Wellesley college. She di.
at Helena a few years ago.
Surviving Relatives
Judge Holloway is survived by h
three children, Miss Eleanor HOll
way, of Boston, and William L. HC
loway, Jr., Of Seattle, who was wi
his father when he died at Lol
Beach, and John Holloway, who is
high school at Helena, and other II
atives, as follows: His sister, Mrs.
E. Earhart; a niece, Mrs. Carli'
Kenyon, and two nepheWs, Ray a
Carroll Holloway, all Of Bozema
his nieces, Mrs. Il. G. Bowles, Of Fl
syth, and Mrs. F. M. Seeman, Of S
Francisco; a NEPHEW, Hollis Hol
way, of Townsend, and 2 niece. 81
r.. w. Rossiter, Of Sheridan, No
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