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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 4/17/1862
Birth Place: Rockingham, North Carolina
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: LA4 (1841)
Home County: Muscatine
Samuel Holliday
Muscatine County
Born March 16, 1786, in Rockingham, North Carolina. In 1806, he married Mary Wicker in Hillsborough, Chatham, North Carolina. He served in Captain Daniel Rex’s Company in the War of 1812. By 1820, he had moved to Pike, Ohio. In 1830, he lived in Clinton, Indiana. Mr. Holliday then moved to Iowa in 1836, representing Muscatine County in the House of Representatives in the Fourth Legislative Assembly of the Iowa Territory from 1841 to 1842. His wife, Mary, died sometime before 1854. He married Margaret Tremer in Muscatine County on April 12, 1854. He died on April 17, 1862.
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