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Samuel Ely Holland

S.E. Holland
Full Name: Samuel Ely Holland
Birth date: December 6, 1826
Death date: November 19, 1917

Terms of Service

  • House, 25th (1) Legislature
    1/12/1897 - 1/10/1899
    Populist
(1) Populist. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Mexican War: S.E. Holland, Private, 1st Texas Mounted Volunteers, service date 5/1/1847, enlistment in Austin, age 20; Samuel E. Holland, Private, Bell's Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers, service date 10/25/1848, enlistment at McCulloch's Station, Texas, age 22. U.S., Compiled Military Service Records for American Volunteer Soldiers, Mexican War, 1845-1848; Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 (Ranger Rolls - Statehood).
    Confederate States Army: Burnet Guards, Burnet County, Cav. Co., 27th Brigade, Captain Wm. H. Magill, enlistment 1/8/1861; Private, Co. for Burnet County, 3rd Frontier District, Captain Jas. P. Magill, enlistment 1864 in Burnet County and mustered into service 1/28/1864. S.E. Holland, Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 (Civil War Index - Abstracts of Muster Rolls). Ancestry.com .
  • S.E. Holland, birth date 12/6/1826, death date 11/19/1917, portrait, burial in Holland Cemetery, Burnet, Burnet County, with spouse Clara A. Holland. Find a Grave .
  • HOLLAND, SAMUEL ELY. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Mexican War, United States Army, served under Samuel Highsmith, then Col. John Coffee Hays' regiment, later served as Private under Captain Henry E. McCulloch in Bell's Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers; Confederate States Army, frontier scout in Captain James P. Magill's company of the Burnet Guards in the 27th Brigade. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Biographical sketch, Samuel E. Holland, Burnet. Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, 1880, pp. 304-305. Born 12/6/1826 in Merriweather County, Georgia. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
  • Biographical sketch, Samuel E. Holland, pp. 110-111. Born 12/6/1826 in Meriwether County, Georgia. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, Samuel E. Holland, pp. 289-292. Samuel Ely Holland, born 12/6/1826 in Merryweather County, Georgia. Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.

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