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The Ancestry of John Hampden Holliday AUGUSTUSR. MARKLE In writing of any man, there is always much left out of the story, whether genealogy or biography is the object, for in a biography we necessarily must take ancestry into account, and in genealogy the mere parading across the page of a lot of names faiIs to bring into the picture the effect that ancestors had in producing the man. There is not room in this department of the Magazine to set out many of the features of his life nor to do inore than name those forebears who had a part in determining the life and character of the man who became the first president of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, John Hampden Holliday. Mr. Holliday was educated in the public schools of In- dianapolis, and, after four years at the Northwestern Chris- tian University, the predecessor of Butler College, he entered Hanover College where he was graduated in the Class of 1864. A little before his graduation, he enlisted in the One Hundred Thirty-seventh Indiana, a hundred-day regiment, and served for four months. He then re-enlisted in the Seventieth Indiana Infantry for three years, but was reject- ed by the medical examiner. After a short experience in the practice of law, he began work with the Indianapolis Gazette in 1866. In 1869, he founded a paper of his own, the Indi- anapolis News, the first issue appearing on December 7, 1869. He retired from the News in 1892 and a year later helped organize the Union Trust Company, of which he became the first president. He resigned in 1899 to found the Indianap- olis Press which had a short life, being sold a year and a half later to the News. Mr. Holliday then became president of the Union Trust Company again. In 1916, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors and was for many years connected with other financial and benevolent institutions of Indianapolis. In 1875, Evaline M. Rieman of Baltimore became the wife of Mr. Holliday and to this union were born seven children. In 1916, Mr. and Mrs. Holliday presented to the City of Indianapolis their beautiful eighty-acre country place on White River between Crow’s Nest and Broad Ripple, the city to have possession three years after the first of March following the death of the survivor of the couple. In The Ancestrg of John Hampden Holliday 67

1920, Mr. Holliday announced the gift of $25,000 to the Emmerich Manual Training High School in memory of his son, John Hampden Holliday, Jr., who was a graduate of this High School in the Class of 1901. On December 23, 1917, the young man died while in army service at Washington, D.C. The senior John Hampden Holliday was a charter member of the Indianapolis Literary Club ; one of the founders of the Immigrants’ Aid Association; long the chairman of the Indiana State Conference of Charities and Corrections ; and for many years a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church and a trustee of the Presbyterian Synod of Indiana. For forty-six years, he served as a trustee of Hanover Col- lege, and, for a quarter of a century, as a trustee of McCor- mick Theological Seminary. He was one of the founders of the Indianapolis Charity Organization Society, now the Family Welfare Society. He was a thirty-third degree Ma- son and a member of Phi Gamma Delta. It was on Oc- tober 20, 1921, at his country home near Crow’s Nest on White River, that John Hampden Holliday died, at the age of seventy-five. Born on May 31, 1846, in Indianapolis, to the Reverend William Adair Holliday and his wife Lucia Shaw Cruft, John H. Holliday was the product of two widely dissimilar stocks. His father, the son of Samuel Holliday, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, a few years before the re- moval of the family to Indiana in 1816. His mother was born in Boston in 1805 and died in 1881. The grandfather, Samuel Holliday, was born in 1779 to William Holliday and Martha Patton. Of the latter very little is known, but we know that William was born in Ire- land in 1755 and died in Kentucky in 1812. His parents were Samuel Holliday, born in 1709, and Janet Adair. Sam- uel Holliday, the grandfather of John Hampden Holliday, married Elizabeth Martin (1781-1846). She was the daughter of Jacob Martin, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and his wife, Catherine Wilson. In so far as a man is what his mother makes him, the New England ancestry of John Hampden Holliday had much to do with his life in later years, and it is of this side of his family that the most is known. The mother of John H. Holliday was Lucia Shaw Cruft 68 Zndiarta MaQazine of History

(1805-1881). Lucy was the daughter of John Cruft, who was born in Boston in 1769, and was married in 1799 to Lucia Crocker Shaw (1772-1812). John Cruft died in 1839. John was the son of Foster Cruft (1734-1800) who was married in 1757 to Ann Breck (1738-1827). Foster was the son of Edward Cruft (1690-1734) of Boston, who was married in 1715 to Abigail Foster. Ann Breck, wife of Foster Cruft and grandmother of John H. Holliday, was the daughter of John Breck (1705-1761) who was married in 1727 to Margaret Thomas. Margaret was the daughter of William Thomas and his wife Abigail, the year of her birth being 1708. John, the father of Ann Breck, was the son of a John Breck (1680-1713)who was married in 1703 to Ann Patte- shall (1678-1767). The father of the latter John Breck was also a John Breck (1650-1691) with a wife named Susanna. The father of this third John Breck was Edward Breck who died in Dorchester in 1662. He married Isabel Rigby. Ann Patteshall (1678-1767), who married the second John Breck, was the daughter of Richard Patteshall (1636- 1689) and Martha Woodee. Martha was born in 1669 to Isaac and Dorcas Woodee. The father of Richard was Ed- mund Patteshall, who died in 1675. The grandmother of John H. Holliday and wife of John Cruft, Lucia Crocker Shaw, was the daughter of William Shaw, D. D. (1741-1816) of Marshfield, Massachusetts, who drried Lucy Crocker (1744-1776) in 1766. The Reverend William Shaw was graduated from Harvard in 1762, and in 1815 received the degree of S. T. D. He was married a second time to Sarah Mather, and a third time, to Ann Check- ley. The father of the Rev. William Shaw was also graduated from Harvard (class of 1729). He was born in 1708 and married Sarah Angier (1705-1768). The grandfather of the Rev. William Shaw was Joseph Shaw and his grandmother was Judith Whitmarsh (1669-1760), daughter of John and Sarah Whitmarsh. Joseph Shaw was the son of John Shaw of Weymouth, whose wife Elizabeth was the daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Phillips. This John Shaw of Weymouth was the son of Abraham Shaw, the immigrant from England, who married Bridget Best in 1616 and died in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1638. Sarah Angier, mother of the Rev. William Shaw, was The Ancestvg of John Hampden Holliday 69 the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Angier (1654-1719) who was graduated from Harvard in 1673. The Rev. Angier married Hannah Oakes in 1680. Samuel Angier was the son of Edmund Angier (1612-1692),who came to Cambridge from England and married Ruth Ames. Ruth was the daughter of the Rev. William Ames (1476-1633) and his wife Joanna Fletcher (1587-1644). Ames and his wife were immigrants to Cambridge, Massachusettes, from England. Edmund Angier’s father was John Angier. Hannah Oakes, who married the Rev. Samuel Angier, was the daughter of the Reverend Urian Oakes (1631-1681),an early president of Harvard College. The father of Urian Oakes was Ed- ward Oakes, who like his son, was born in England and became a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lucy Crocker, who became the first wife of the Rev. William Shaw, was the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Crocker (1715-1772) of Eastham, Massachusetts, who married Reli- ance Allen (1715-1759)in 1739. Joseph was graduated from Harvard in 1734. He was the son of Thomas Crocker (1671- 1728) who married Hannah Green of Boston in 1698. Thomas died in Barnstable in 1728, at the age of fifty-three. Thomas was the son of Josiah Crocker (1647-1698) who married Malatiah Hinckley, (1648-1714). Malatiah was the daughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley, born in England in 1619, and his wife Mary Richards of Cape Cod. The Governor died in 1706. The father of Josiah Crocker waa William Crocker of Barnstable and his wife Alice. Josiah died in 1692. Reliance Allen, who became the wife of the Rev. Joseph Crocker, was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Allen who was graduated from Yale in 1708. Benjamin married Eliz- abeth Crocker in 1712, and died in 1754. The father of the Rev. Benjamin Allen was James Allen of Martha’s Vineyard (1623-1714) and his wife Elizabeth Perkins (1644-1722). Elizabeth Crocker who became the wife of the Rev. Benja- min Allen, was born in 1668 to Job Crocker (1644-1718) and his wife Hannah Taylor. Job was the son of William Crocker and his wife Alice. The Holliday line from the earliest one listed in this brief family history runs as follows: Samuel Holliday-b. Aug. 12, 1709 at Glen, Scotland; m. (2) Janet Adair; d. Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland. 70 Zndianu Magazine of History

William Holliday (son of Samuel and Jane Adair Holli- day) -b. 1755 in Ireland ; m. Martha Patton ; d. 1812 in Ken- tucky. Samuel Holliday (son of William and Martha Patton Hol1iday)-b. 1779; m. Elizabeth Martin (b. 1781; dau. Jacob and Catherine Wilson Martin; d. 1846). William Adair Holliday (son of Samuel and Martha Patton Holliday) -b. about 1806 in Harrison County, Ken- tucky; came to Indiana in 1816; m. Lucia Shaw Cruft (b. 1805; dau. John and Lucia Crocker Shaw Cruft; d. 1881). John Hampden Holliday (son of William Adair and Lucia Shaw Cruft Hol1iday)-b. May 31, 1846; m. Evaline M. Rieman of Baltimore in 1875; d. Oct. 1, 1921, in Indian- apolis. John Hampden Holliday, Jr., (son of John Hampden and Evaline M. Rieman Hol1iday)-b. about 1884; d. Pec. 23, 1917, in Washington, D.C.

'Additional biographical material on John H. Holliday may be found in the following: George Irving Reed, ed.. Encucbedia of Biography of Indiana (Chicago, 1896). I. 92-94: Will Cumhack and T. B. Maynard. eds.. Men of Proorcss of Indiana (Indianapolia. 1899), 474-477 : Jacob Piatt Dunn, Creuter Indiarapdia (Chicago. 1910). 11. 1006-1008 : idem. Indiana and Indianium (Chicago.. 1919). 111. 1226-1226 : Kate Milner Rabb and William Hersehlll. eds.. An Account of IndiampdiS and Marion County (Dayton. 0.. 1924). IV, 406-410: Indianapolis New.. Oct. 21. 1921.