Addison

HOLLAND, Emerson

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 202-204

Emerson HOLLAND, of Vergennes [Addison County, Vermont], was born 21 May 
1829, son of Stephen and Achsa R. (BIXBY) HOLLAND. He received a good 
education by attending the common schools of Panton [Addison County, 
Vermont], to which town his parents moved when he was yet young. Later he 
attended a private classical school at Vergennes, and the academy at St. 
Albans [Franklin County, Vermont]. He spent the years 1854 and 1855 in 
Kalamazoo [Kalamazoo County], Michigan, as a clerk in a store and warehouse. 
When his father died he was obliged to return and has since been a farmer and 
surveyor, and as both has been actively employed. He holds many positions of 
trust, and has assisted by appointment of probate court in settling fifty-six 
estates. Republican; has held various town offices; was town treasurer for 
seventeen years and five years selectman, after which he resigned; 
represented Panton in 1864 and 1865 in the state Legislature, and served as 
chairman of the committee on mileage and debentures. He was census 
enumerator for Panton and Waltham [both in Addison County] in 1890. In 1892 
he was elected associate judge for Addison County. Judge HOLLAND has a good 
library of classical works. He has made a most conservative record in the 
positions of honor he has held, but is a quiet, unassuming man and despises 
office-seeking. He is of a dignified bearing, and though naturally reserved 
is friendly and sincere in his relations, and is one of the able and 
respected men of Addison County. His is unmarried, and his sister, Jessie 
M., presides over his household at the old homestead.

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