- ADONIRAM J. HOLMES was born on the 2d of March, 1842, in
Wayne County, Ohio. His
- parents removed to Wisconsin while he was a child and there
he entered Milton College but before finishing the course enlisted
in the Union army, serving until the close of the war. Returning
to Janesville he studied law and was admitted to the bar but
afterwards took the full course in the Law Department of the
State University of Michigan. In 1868 he located at Boone, Iowa.
In 1881 he was elected to the house of the Nineteenth General
Assembly, serving one term. In 1882 he was elected to the Congress
on the Republican ticket and twice reelected, serving six years.
He died January 23, 1902.
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- [Taken from "History of Iowa from the Earliest Times
to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Vol. IV" by Benjamin
F. Gue; (c)1903 The Century History Co., New York City; pp. 132-133]
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