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homestead has been sold but the family retain an acre of the ground, -the place in which the remains of this honored pioneer are interred. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Hogan was Hiram Abney, who was of stanch English stock, the lineage being traced back for more than 1,200 years. A representative of this family was at one time lord mayor of the city of London. Hiram Abney came with his family from South Carolina to Oktibbeha county, Miss., in 1837, and here he continued to reside during the remainder of his life. Cicero A. Hogan was reared and educated in Oktibbeha county and became one of the influential and honored citizens of this section of the State. As a young man he engaged in the mercantile business at Starkville, continuing to be identified with this line of enterprise during his entire business career and having been one of the pioneer merchants of the city at the time of his death. Five of his brothers were loyal soldiers of the Confederacy in the war between the States. He became a member of the Baptist church when twenty-three years of age and was ever afterward zealous as a churchman, having been a deacon in the church for half a century. In a fraternal way he was identified with the Masonic order. J. Beverly Hogan, the im- mediate subject of this sketch, secured his preliminary education in the schools of Starkville, after which he continued his studies for some time in the Southwestern Baptist university, at Jackson, Tenn. At the age of nineteen years he became clerk in his father's mercantile establishment, continuing to be thus employed for a period of five years, after which he gave his attention to agricultural pur- suits for seven years. He still retains possession of his well im- proved farm, the greater portion of the land being rented. In 1892 he purchased the well established insurance agency which had been conducted by C. A. Hogan and Dr. T. G. Sellers, and he has increased the prestige of the agency and greatly augmented the scope of the business. He represented the Liverpool, London and Globe Insur- ance Company, the Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn., and the Home Insurance Company of New York, besides many other old and popu- lar companies. He controls a large and representative business and has been most successful in the enterprise. In politics Mr. Hogan is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party and while he he has taken a lively interest in political affairs in his county for many years past, he has never sought or desired the honors or emoluments of public office. For the past eight years he has been a member of the election board. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church. On April 17, 1889, Mr. Hogan was united in marriage to Miss Dee Pierce, who was born and reared in Oktibbeha county, being a daugh- ter of Simeon and Lucy (Carpenter) Pierce. Her father was born in Kentucky and came to Oktibbeha county in 1842. He served under Jefferson Davis in the Mexican war, and was a valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, having been a member of Com- pany L, Fourteenth Mississippi infantry. He is still living, being eighty-eight years of age (1906). Mr. and Mrs. Hogan became the
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parents of four children, two of whom are living, Hazel K. and John. William A. and Lucy died in infancy.
Hollandsworth, Robert B., the able and popular manager of the Corinth Herald, one of the leading newspapers of the State, was born near Burnsville, Tishomingo county, Miss., Oct. 17, 1857, being a representative of one of the well known families of that section. He was afforded the advantages of the common schools and has long been a resident of the city of Corinth. He served as tax asses- sor of Alcorn county from 1884 to 1889, and has been manager of the Corinth Herald since Oct. 24, 1902, proving a most discrimi- nating and efficient executive. He is aligned as a loyal supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and both he and his wife hold membership in the Metho- dist Episcopal church, South. On Feb. 22, 1880, Mr. Hollandsworth was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Porter, and they have five children-Kenneth P., Ina Maude, Covey B., Samuel J. and Mary Lillian.
Holloway, William Robert, president of the Bank of Collins, Cov- ington county, and a member of the old and well known firm of Holloway & McRaney, in which he succeeded his father, was born in Mount Carmel, Covington county, Miss., April 20, 1870, and is one of the most prominent and influential of the younger business men of his native county. He is a son of John F. and Josephine W. (Magee) Holloway, both of whom were likewise born and reared in this county, where the former died in the year 1886, one of the most honored and best known citizens of this section of the State. At the time when the Confederate government took up arms to defend the inherent rights of the South, John F. Holloway joined a regiment of Mississippi cavalry, Maj. T. R. Stockdale having com- mand of the battalion. The service of this command was almost entirely confined to skirmishing in Mississippi and Louisiana, and it was engaged at Port Hudson and vicinity during the maneuvers and conflicts there, doing scouting duty. He was one of the founders of the firm of Holloway & McRaney, in 1866, which has built up a large and prosperous general merchandise business, with which he continued to be identified until his death, the headquarters being in Mount Carmel. Mrs. Holloway died in 1883 prior to the death of her husband. The subject of this sketch is his successor in the firm, which now operates a store in Collins, where the first business building in the town was erected by this firm in 1900 and where a prosperous trade has been built up. William R. Holloway secured his educational training in the public and private schools of Missis- sippi and after leaving school he continued his residence in Mount Carmel until 1900 when he became one of the pioneer young busi- ness men of Collins, whose rise has been rapid and substantial. Upon the organization of the Bank of Collins, in 1901, he was made its president, and he has since directed its policy along liberal lines.' The bank has an authorized capital of $50,000 and is doing a safe and conservative business, having paid good dividends from the start and now has a surplus of about $15,000. In his political pro-
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clivities Mr. Holloway is naturally a stanch Democrat and his interest in public affairs of a local nature is typified in his incumbency of the office of alderman. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternity and both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He exemplifies the progressive spirit of the leading younger men who are doing so much to promote the advancement of the State of Mississippi in both an industrial and civic way. On Jan. 8, 1891, Mr. Holloway was married to Miss (Mamie) A. McRaney, daughter of Duncan C. McRaney, of whom individual mention is made else- where in this work, and two children have been born of this union, Ernest Duncan and Paul Dickson.
Holman, Capt. William H., of Macon, is county treasurer of Noxubee county, is a veteran of the Civil war and is one of the sterling and honored citizens o his community. He was born in New- berry county, S. C., Nov. 10, 1846, and is a son of Robert B. and Frances E. (Kin- ard) Holman, both of whom were born and reared in that State, where the father was a successful planter. Wm. H. Hol- man passed his youth on the home plan- tation in Noxubee county, Miss., his father having moved here in 1856 and was not neglectful of the advantages of the common schools, after leaving which he continued his studies in Gathright institute, at Summerville, Miss. He was a youth of about fifteen years at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war, and in 1864 he tendered his services in defense of the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting in Company A, Fourth battalion South Carolina infantry, with which he served during the remainder of the war, having been captain of his company before he was eigh- teen years of age. The battalion was principally assigned to duty in connection with the coast defense, and Captain Holman with a part of the battalion was with Johnston's army in North Carolina, taking part in all the principal engagement's. After the war Captain Holman came back to Mississippi and located in Noxubee county, where he identified himself with agricultural pursuits, becoming one of the planters of this section of the State and so ordering his course as to gain and retain the confidence and esteem of the people of the county. In 1895, as candidate on the Democratic ticket, he was elected county treasurer, and he remained incumbent until January, 1900, having shown marked fidelity and ability in handling the fiscal affairs of the county. In the meanwhile he continued to superintend his plantation, but he disposed of the same in January, 1905, and is now giving his undivided attention to the duties of his office as county treasurer, to which he was re-elected in 1904, an indication of the popular estimate placed upon his services in this capacity during his former administration. Captain Holman is a
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candidate for chancery clerk of his county at this writing. He is one of the uncompromising advocates of the principles of the Demo- cratic party and is identified with the United Confederate Veterans. On Jan. 29, 186S, Captain Holman was united in marriage to Miss Brancie Davie, daughter of Dr. Gabriel S. and Brancie (McDavid) Davie, of Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. Holman died Jan. 13, 1902, the following being a brief record concerning the children: Ella B. is the wife of George W. Taylor, of Noxubee county; Annie S., wife of Richard N. Stuart, of this county; Amer, about fifteen years old, died Jan. 9, 1902, only four days prior to the death of her devoted mother; and Wistar G. and Mary M. remain at the paternal home.
Holyfield, Hays Newton, M. D., is en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Weathersby, Simpson county, and is one of the representative younger physicians and surgeons of his native State. He was born in Rankin county, Miss., Nov. 16, 1879, and is a son of N. K. and Lou (Bloomfield) Holyfield, the former born in Simpson county and the latter in Rankin county, this State. Dr. Holyfield passed his boyhood days on the homestead plan- tation, securing his fundamental educa- tion in the public schools and completing a course in the high school at Harperville, Scott county, while his professional edu- cation was secured in the medical department of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., and the Memphis Hospital medical college, in Memphis, that State, in which latter institution he was graduated. Prior to taking up the active work of his profession he devoted five years to teaching in the public schools of Rankin and Simpson counties, meeting with gratifying success in his peda- gogic endeavors. He has been established in the practice of his profession in Weathersby since leaving college and also conducts the only drug store in the town, where he enjoys the unqualified confidence and good will of all classes of citizens. He is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party but has never sought or held public office. On Dec. 27, 1901, Dr. Holyfield was married to Miss Lola Miley, daughter of Rev. T. J. and Missouri (Franklin) Miley, of Rankin county. Of the two children of Dr. and Mrs. Holyfield it may be recorded that Beatrice was born Sept. 19, 1902, and Gaston, Sept. 4, 1903.
Howard, Hector Holdbrook, M. D., of Hattiesburg, Perry county, is one of the able representatives of his profession in this county, where he established himself in practice in 1904, being associated with his elder brother, Dr. Louis H. Howard, of whom individual mention is made in this publication. Dr. Hector H. Howard was born in Carthage, Leake county, Miss., and is a son of Dr. H. H. and Susan A. (Slaughter) Howard, native respectively of Vermont and Alabama. The subject of this review completed a course in
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the high school of Carthage, and thereafter secured a position in a drug store in his native town, being thus employed for several years and his experience in the line, as well as the predilection possibly given by the professional success of his father and brother, led him to determine to adopt the vocation of the physician and surgeon. In his work of preparation he had excellent advantages, as is evident when we state that he completed the prescribed course in the medi- cal department of Tulane university, in the city of New Orleans, La., where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1898. He was for a time engaged in practice in Carthage, the town of his birth, and later in Columbia, Miss., where he remained until the time of taking up his residence in Hattiesburg, as noted. He has gained a definite place in the confidence and esteem of this community, both as a physician and citizen, and his professional success here thus has a firm and reliable basis. He is a member of the Perry county medical society, is a Democrat in his political adherency and is enrolled as a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Honor. Feb. 21, 1896, witnessed the marriage of Dr. Howard to Miss Erma Jordan, daughter of John L. and Eliza- beth (Mann) Jordan, of Carthage, Miss., and of the three children of this union, two are living, Hester Agnes and William Holdbrook. Hector Holdbrook, Jr., the second child, died at the age of two years.
Hooker, Henry S., Jr., senior member of the legal firm of Hooker & McBee of Lexington, was born at Lexington, Dec. 22, 1878, a son of H. S. Hooker, Sr., and Mary Ella (Bell) Hooker. He received early educational advantages in the public schools of Lexington, and upon the com- pletion of his labors there he matriculated in the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. In 1900 he was given a degree of Bachelor of Laws by the faculty of that institution and located at once at Vicksburg, where he embarked in his profession. In May, 1902, he returned to Lexington and formed a partnership with R. C. McBee, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this vol- ume. The clientage of the firm has increased from year to year until now it is among the best in the county. Mr. Hooker's political relations are Democratic and as the candidate of that party he has twice been elected to fill offices of public trust. The first honor of the kind was his election to the office of mayor of Lexington and the other was his elevation to the office of representative of his dis- trict in the lower branch of the Mississippi legislature. Fraternally Mr. Hooker is widely and popularly known. While at college he became a member of Delta Psi fraternity and is now actively identi- fied with the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias (of which he is a past chancellor), the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Free and Accepted Masons. On Dec. 16, 1903, he
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was united in marriage to Miss Wille Evelyn Baldwin, a daughter of W. O. and Lucy (Whitney) Baldwin of Canton. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Hooker are devout and conscientious mem- bers and attendants of the Baptist and Episcopalian churches, re- spectively.
Hull, Francis Blair, founder and head of the F. B. Hull Construction Company, of Jackson, one of the best known and most extensive concerns engaged in contract- ing for public buildings and other public works ever engaged in this line of enter- prise in the State. Mr. Hull was born in the city of Jackson, Miss., Aug. 17, 1846, and is a son of John T. and Anna M. (Blair) Hull, who were sterling citizens of Mississippi, where they continued to reside until their death. Mr. Hull attended the private and public schools of Jackson until there came the call of higher duty, with the outbreak of the war between the States, all considerations being held secondary to the allegiance owed to the cause of the Confederacy on the part of the loyal citizens of the Southern States. At this climacteric period in the history of the nation most of the schools in Mississippi were closed, and from them went forth many who were mere boys but whose courage and loyalty were of most ardent nature. Mr. Hull entered the Con- federate service, in which he continued two years, having been a member of that celebrated organization known as the Washington artillery, of New Orleans, La. After the war he became a telegraph operator and later was employed as salesman in a general merchan- dise establishment. On Sept. 1, 1874, he opened a lumber yard in Jackson, and in the following year began operations as a building contractor, initiating his enterprise in this line on a small scale but this laying the foundation for the magnificent business which was later built up and which is now controlled by the company at whose head he st:nds. In 1876 he admitted his brother, William S., to. partnership, and their contracting business gradually grew in scope and importance, and for the past twenty years attention has been devoted .entirely to designing and erecting public buildings-chiefly court houses and jails. In the autumn of 1904 the firm of F. B. & W. S. Hull was dissolved, William S. continuing his labors as an archi- tect and the subject of this review continuing the business which he himself had founded so many years previously. He admitted to partnership his son, Francis B., Jr., and the enterprise has since been conducted under the title of the F. B. Hull Construction Company, the functions of the concern being still confined almost entirely to contracting for public buildings. To this company and the firm it succeeds stands the credit of having erected more than 200 public buildings. Mr. Hull's technical ability and long experience emi- nently qualify him for the execution of the highest grade of con-
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tracts and his name is voucher for fair and honorable business meth- ods and maximum excellence of workmanship. His company stands on a high plane and represents one of the strong and popular con- cerns of the State. Mr. Hull is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, and while he has never sought office he served one term as a member of the board of aldermen and takes a deep interest in the welfare and progress of his home city and State. The F. B. Hull Construction Company has now sixteen or seventeen public build- ings scattered from Missouri to Georgia, and has recently closed several office contracts on a commission basis, among the best of these jobs being a $300,000 steel-framed hotel at Alexandria; a $100,- 000 court house at Franklin; a $20,000 Baptist church and a $40,000 Presbyterian church at Vicksburg, Miss. They have also finished up a court house at Franklinton, La., that the contractors defaulted on. This company with Mr. F. B. Hull, Sr., as president is the most successful firm in the South engaged in erecting public buildings. They have built more of these houses than any other firm and have had better success with them. Wherever their buildings go up they are standing advertisements for excellent work. Mr. Hull has been for thirty-eight years a Mason, is also a Knight of Pythias, and is a member of the Episcopal church. He was married to Miss Clara Swain Nov. 14, 1860, his wife having died sixteen years ago. To this union were born five children, who are now all grown. Mr. Hull remains a widower.
Hunnicutt, William Joseph, M. D., one of the able and popular physicians and surgeons of Pearl River county, is ex- mayor of the thriving town of Poplar- ville, where he has been successfully estab- lished in the practice of his profession for the past decade. The doctor was born in Kemper county, Miss., March 10, 1867, and is a son of John L. and Mary (McDade) Hunnicutt, the former of whom was born in the State of Alabama and the latter in Kemper county, Miss., the father follow- ing the vocation of merchandising during the major portion of his active business career and being now a resident of Oak Grove, Miss. The early educational advantages afforded to Dr. Hunnicutt were those of the common schools of his native county, and he later continued his studies in the Cooper normal college, at Dalesville, this State. He was associated with his father in the mercantile business at Oak Grove for a period of two years, and in the meanwhile had decided to take up the profession of medicine, for which he fitted himself largely through study under private pre- ceptors. In 1891, at the age of twenty-four years, he passed the examination before the Mississippi State board of medical examiners, was admitted to practice and began the active work of his profession by locating in Lauderdale county, where he remained three years,
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meeting with gratifying success. He then reinforced himself by a course of study in the medical department of the University of Ten- nessee, at Nashville, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895, receiving his degree and diploma from this celebrated institution. Very soon after his graduation Dr. Hunnicutt located in Poplarville, where the most unqualified success has attended his professional endeavors, while he is known as a liberal and public- spirited citizen. In 1899 he was elected mayor of Poplarville, serv- ing one term and giving a most practical and able administration, while since that time he has served one term as a member of the board of aldermen. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Poplarville, of which he is a director and a member of the executive committee, while he is also engaged in the real estate business, as a member of the firm of Scarborough & Hunnicutt. The doctor is a member of the American medical association, the Mississippi State, medical society and the Pearl River county medical society, of which last mentioned he is president at the time of this writing. For a number of years he was local surgeon for the New Orleans & North- Eastern railroad, and he is examining surgeon for the leading life insurance companies doing business in this section. He is affiliated with the lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity and also with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while both he and his wife are valued members of the Methodist church of Poplarville. On Dec. 23, 1898, Dr. Hunnicutt was united in marriage to Miss Johnie Estelle 'Rhodes, daughter of John N. and Mary Ann (Fullalove) Rhodes, of Dalesville, this State, and two children have been born of this union, Johnie Will, aged cleven years; and Helen Huntley, aged five years.
Hunter, John Farrar, M. D. Mississippi has no reason to blush for the accompl sh- ment of her native sons of the generation ushered into the world at the most climac- teric epoch in her history,-that leading up to and culminating in the great war be- tween the States. Among those properly classified in this category is the subject of this review, who stands as one of the best known and most able representatives of the medical profession in the State and who controls a large and important prac- tice in Jackson, the beautiful capital city of the commonwealth. Dr. Hunter was born in the city which is now his home, and the date of his nativity was Feb. 19, 1860. His father, Rev. John H. Hunter, D. D., was born in historic old Ireland, Sept. 10, 1824, and was the eighth child and youngest of the four sons of Alexander and Margaret (Kelso) Hunter, the former of whom died in 1863 and the latter in 1870. Dr. John Hunter received his early educational training in the Emerald Isle, and he came to America when a young man, locating in Kentucky, where he continued his
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studies in Center college and where he finally completed his theo- logical course, at Danville. In 1856 he was ordained a clergyman of the Presbyterian church and in the same year assumed the pastor- ate of the First Presbyterian church of Danville, Ky., where he re-' mained until February, 1858, when he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Jackson, Miss., where he passed the remainder of his long and useful life. He remained pastor of this church for thirty-eight years, and no man in the city was more loved and venerated than he. Of scholarly attainments, an able and forceful speaker and one whose deep Christian faith dominated and glorified ever thought and action of his life, he left a deep impress as one of the noble representatives of his profession in the state. His memory is revered in Jackson, where he was known to young and old in practically every household. He served many years as stated clerk of the synod of his church in Mississippi and also as trustee of the deaf and dumb institute of the State. His influence permeated the civic life of the capital city to a marked degree and as a citizen he was essentially public-spirited. He was summoned to the life eternal March 13, 1900, in the fullness of years and honors and continued his pastoral charge until within a few years prior to his demise, when the infirmities of advanced age compelled his re- tirement. On Aug. 24, 1858, he united in marriage to Mrs. Rosa M. (Farrar) Petrie, of Jackson, a daughter of Dr. Steven D. Farrar, who was one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Jackson in his day and who was here engaged in practice for many years prior to his death, which occurred in 1871. He was a native of Virginia and became one of the prominent and influential citizens of the capi- tal city of Mississippi. Dr. John and Rosa M. (Farrar) Hunter be- came the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born. Rosabel, who became the wife of Gen. George Y. Freeman, died in 1890; George A. is a resident of Oklahoma; Idelett remains at the old homestead in Jackson; and Ernest L. died in 1879, at the age of twelve years. The devoted wife an 1 mother passed away in 1905, at the venerable age of eighty years, and her memory rests as a gracious benediction on all those who came within the sphere of her gentle influence. Dr. John F. Hunter, to whom this sketch is dedicated, was afforded the advantages of the higher schools of his native city and also had the further privilege of being reared in a home of distinctive culture and refinement. His initial technical study in a professional way was secured under the able preceptorship of Dr. George K. Harrington, and in 1882 he was gradu- ated in the University of Louisiana (now Tulane university) at New Orleans, La., from which celebrated institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1888 he took effective post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic, and he keeps in intimate touch with the advances made in both branches of his profession, being a close and appreciative student. He has been continuously engaged in practice in Jackson from the time of his graduation, and no phy- sician in the State has gained greater prestige and s :ccess. The demands of his practice finally grew so great and so insistent that:
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