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cording to Stauff er he engaged at times in lithog-
raphy, photography, and the publishing business.
In 1904 he published a series of etchings of his-
toric buildings under title Prints of Old New
York, of antiquarian interest. During his later
years he was a picturesque and familiar figure on
the streets of New York, known and liked every-
where in the print world. In appearance he is
described (New York Times, post) as resem-
bling Ruskin: "a handsome, patriarchal figure
with flowing white beard, sealskin cap and coat,
and his portfolio under his arm."

[D. McN. Stauffer, Am. Engravers upon Copper and
Steel (1907); Frank Weitenkampf, Am. Graphic Art
(1912) ; Am. Art News, Jan. 3, 1920 ; Jour, of the Ex-

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^ibris Soc.t June 1897; N. Y. Times, Dec, 30, 1919;
information as to certain facts from Hollyer's brother,
Frederick Hollyer, London, England.] M.B.H.

HOLMAN, JESSE LYNCH (Oct. 24,1784-
Mar. 28, 1842), Indiana legislator, Baptist cler-
gyman, judge, was born near Danville, Ky., be-
ing one of fourteen children. His father, Henry
Holeman (the son preferred the simpler form
of the name), migrated in 1776 from Virginia
to Kentucky, where in 1789 he met death at the
hands of hostile Indians who attacked a block-
house in which his wife, Jane, and children had
taken refuge. After completing a preparatory
course, the son read law in the office of Henry
Clay. In 1805 or 1806 he set up as a lawyer in
Carrollton, Ky., then known as Port William.
While living at this place, he was married to
Elizabeth Masterson, the accomplished daugh-
ter of Judge Richard Masterson, a man of some
wealth and consequence. William Steele Hol-
man [#.#.] was their son. In 1810, the young
lawyer crossed the Ohio and settled in Indiana
Territory a short distance south of Aurora, of
which town he was one of the founders. The
following year Gov. William Henry Harrison
appointed him prosecuting attorney for Dear-
born County. In 1814, he was elected to the
popular branch of the territorial legislature, by
which body he was chosen speaker. Before the
end of 1814, he was appointed judge of one of
the two circuits comprised in the territory and
two years later to the supreme bench of the new
state. He held this office until 1830, when Gov.
James Brown Ray refused to reappoint him. In
1831, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the
United States Senate. In 1834, President Jack-
son appointed him to a federal judgeship. From
this time until his death in 1842, he served as
judge of the United States district court of
Indiana.

In the interval between 1830 and 1834, when
he held no judicial appointment, Holmari was
made superintendent of schools of Dearborn

Holman

County. Throughout his life he was interested
in education. He was one of the founders of
Indiana College (Indiana University), and was
a devoted friend of Franklin College. He was
ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1834, was an
active member of the Baptist Board of Foreign
Missions and a moving spirit in the work of the
Baptist Association throughout Indiana for a
number of years. He is said to have written a
number of poems and, in his youth, to have at-
tempted a novel which some time after publica-
tion he tried to suppress, believing that "its mor-
als were not sound."

[C. W. Taylor, Biog. Sketches and Review of the
Bench and Bar of 2nd. (1895); W. T. Stott, Ind. Bap-
tist Hist. (1908); Jour, of the Senate of the State of
Ind., 1831; Damans Knobe, The Ancestry of Graf ton
Johnson (1924); A Biog. Hist, of Eminent and Self-
Made Men of the State of Ind. (1880) ; Hist, of Dear-
born and Ohio Counties (1885) ; Indiana Jour.f Apr. 6,
J842.] W.O.L.

HOLMAN, WILLIAM STEELE (Sept. 6,
i822-Apr. 22, 1897), congressman, was born
near Aurora, Dearborn County, Ind., the son of
Jesse Lynch Holman [q.v.] and Elizabeth (Mas-
terson) Holman, whose families were among
the pioneers of Kentucky. William was educated
in local schools and attended Franklin College
for two years, giving up his course on the death
of his father. When he was about twenty he
married Abigail Knapp. He studied law, was
admitted to the bar, served as probate judge,
1843-46, and as prosecuting attorney 1847-49,
was a member of the constitutional convention
of 1850, of the legislature in 1851-52, and com-
pleted his service under the state government
by a four-year term as judge of the court of com-
mon pleas, 1852-56. For the next forty years he
was the candidate of the Democratic party in the
4th congressional district of Indiana, being
elected sixteen times. His terms of service in
the House covered the periods 1859-65,1867-77,
1881-95, 1897, He first gained prominence as a
War Democrat and throughout his later career
was known as a friend of the old soldier.

An effective debater, a master of parliamen-
tary tactics, and, thanks to long experience on
committees, an expert on Indian affairs, public
lands, and government expenditures, Holman be-
came one of the outstanding members of the
lower house. It was in the matter of appropri-
ation bills that he made his reputation and earned
the titles "The Watch Dog of the Treasury"
and "The Great Objector/' the latter by the fre-
quency with which he blocked consideration of
measures—usually carrying an appropriation—
which required unanimous consent. While con-
stantly denounced as a demagogue and an expo-
nent of "hay-seed statesmanship," he had a

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