D. H. HOLMAN, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Given), was born in Butler County, Ky., September 4, 1857, and removed to Jasper Township, Wayne C., Ill in 1868.  Joseph, the son of Griffin and Cynthia (Carrol) Holman, was born in Wilson County, Tenn., about 1832; was married to Rebecca J. Given in 1856, and died in Kentucky in 1859.   Rebecca was again married to Edward W. Bobitt, in 1861, and to them were born Nancy A., Thomas M., Martha H., Finley G., Frederick A.,  Claudie G., and Luther R.  Subject attended punctually the district schools of the neighborhood, where he lived until twenty years of age, when he became a student in the High School, in Albion, Edwards, County, and qualified himself for the profession of teacing school, which he follows at the present time.  He also attends the Normal Schools in Fairfield.  Subject is Supervisor of Jasper Township,  probably the youngest member ever elected to the county court.  In politics, he is a Republican and in religious belief a Cumberland Presbyterian.