Ohio County, West Virginia  Biography of J. L. Holliday.

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J. L. HOLLIDAY

J. L. Holliday, a son of J. A. Holliday, was born in Monroe county, 
Ohio, in 1845.  The family removed to Wheeling in the same year.  The 
latter was in the lumber business for several years. He had a planing 
mill and lumber yard destroyed by fire in 1861.  The present Holliday 
planing mill was erected by J. A., and J. L. Holliday, in 1870.  Four 
wagons are used, and an extensive business in all branches of the 
trade is managed.  Mr. J. L. Holliday became widely known on account 
of the India rubber marble hearth stones which he exhibited in 
various parts of the country.  

From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.