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84 JOHN ALLISON, OF LONDONDERRY, N. H.
ford, of Springfield, Vt., March 9, 1859. She was b. March 28,
1838. Children by first marriage :
1. Otto K. Holmes,^ b. June 2, 1854; d. Oct. 27, 1863.
II. Frank H. Holmes,^ b. Feb. 27, 1858.
Children by second marriage:
III. Abbie Holmes," b. April 29, 1851.
IV. Henry Bigelow Holmes,8 b. March 12, 1868.
2. Emeline Duncan Holmes," b. March 7, 1830; d. Sept. 20, 1851.
3. Abigail Holmes," b. Aug. 21, 1836; d. April 20, 1854.
4. Nathajiiel Cutter Holmes," b. Jan. 26, 1857; m., in 1881, Mary B.
Smart, of Springfield. He was educated in the agricultural
department of Dartmouth College, B. S. in 1879; studied law
with Judge Nathaniel Holmes, and in 1883 was admitted to
the bar in St. Louis, Mo., and Massachusetts in 1884, and began
the practice of law at Gardiner, Mass., and d. of consumption
at the home of his uncle, Lucius A. Cutter, at Jaffrey, N. H.,
June 24, 1887. He was a young man of much promise. Child:
I. Laura Rebecca Holmes,^ b. Gardner, Mass., 1886.
5. George Gates Holmes,^ b. July 15, 18.57 ; d. Sept. 15, 1860.
80. Jonathan Holmes,* b. Peterborough, N. H., June 8, 1807; m. Jane,
dau. of Dea. Nathaniel Moore, of Peterborough, Feb. 4, 1830.
She was b. Feb. 8, 1810; d. Aug. 19, 1831. He m., second, in
1831, Mary (Taggart) Robbe, widow of Cicero Robbe, of Peterborough,
and dau. of John Taggart, of Dublin. He owned and
lived till 1838 on the homestead in Peterborough, when he sold
it, and removed to Bronson, Mich., where he established a
large farm and acquired a -
large property. He was a bank
director at Coldwater. He d. at Bronson, Dec. 11, 1884. Children
:
1. Mary Jane Holmes," b. at Peterborough, N. H., in 1832; m. Freeman
Lurdaw (?), of Bronson. She m., second, William Dougherty,
of Winona, Minn. Children by first marriage:
1. Ellen A. Lurdaw" (?), b. 1857; m. Mr. Cornell in 1878.
II. Emma Lurdaw" (?), b. 1861; m. Mr. Hensley in 1878.
III.
Children by second marriage:
William Dougherty," b. 1869.
IV. Jenny Dougherty,8 b. 1873.
2. John Taggart Holmes," b. in 18.36; m. Helen M. McMellon. He xxi.,
second, Sarah Van Aestine, in 1878. Children:
I. Nathaniel L. Holmes," b. 1872.
II. Mary Louise Holmes, « b. 1874.
III. Jonathan Allison Holmes," b. 1881.
IV. Grace Holmes," b. 1884; res. Coldwater, Mich.
3. Cicero Jonathan Holmes," b. Nov. 13, 1844; m. Mary A. Strehlin in
1883; res. Bronson, Mich. Children:
I. Mary Jane Holmes," b. Aug. 7, 1884.
II. Cicero Jonathan Holmes," b. April 11, 1887.
III. Warren C. Holmes," b. October, 1888; d. Sept. 28, 1889.
4. Florence Holmes," b. 1853; m. Ezra E. Beardsley, in 1874; res. Bronson,
Mich. Children:
I. Walton H. Beardsley," b. 1875.
II. Jessie Beardsley," b. 1877.
81. John Allison 3
was born in Londonderry, N. H., in what is now Deny, near
Derry east meeting-house. His father's homestead is included
in the farm of George W. Lane, and he succeeded his
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father upon the home farm, and was a farmer and tavernkeeper.
He died in the prime of early manhood or middle