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HOLLOWAY, E.E.,   farmer, P. O. Fair-field, was born August 30, 1836, in Wilson County, Tenn. He is a son of John Holloway, born in 1807, in Wilson County, Tenn.; he died in Wayne County, Ill., July 26, 1873. He was a blacksmith by occupation, and worked at his trade in Wayne County, Ill., to which place he came in 1854. His father, Levi Holloway, was a native of North Carolina. The mother of our subject was Mary (Caraway) Holloway, born 1809; died December 6, 1880, in this county. She was a daughter of Moses and Mary (Meritt) Caraway, natives of North Carolina. She was the mother of ten children, viz.: William H. (deceased). Elihu E., Nancy B. Graves; Richard H., Mary A. J. Meritt. John D., James F., Martha H. Shaw, Oliver P., Sarah J. Day (deceased).

Our subject was educated principally in Fairfield, Ill. He has taught school for ten winters, with splendid success; he is numbered among our best teachers. He has also been Tax Collector for Barnhill Township for five terms, and has been Township Assessor one term. His other time he has devoted to farming, owning now a farm of eighty acres of land.