Holliday family

William Helmus and Jethro Tabor Holliday, the sons of Eli and Annetta Bogart Holliday, were born near Miami, Ohio, in 1843 and 1844, respectively. The family moved to a farm in Coles County, Illinois, in 1858 and then to northern Colorado in 1868 to operate a sawmill. In 1870 W.H. and J.T acquired a sawmill in what is now southern Albany County, Wyoming. The sawmill was located near Sherman, Wyoming, on Dale Creek.

W.H. Holliday formed the W.H. Holliday Company in 1872 in Laramie, Wyoming, and J.T. Holliday established short-lived lumberyards in Greeley, Colorado, in 1875 and in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1877 before joining his brother as vice-president of W.H. Holliday Company in 1879, which entailed a lumber yard, general mercantile, and building contracting.

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