HOLLIDAY, JOHN HAMPDEN: 1846-1921.
John Hampden Holliday , son of the Rev. William A. and Lucia S. Cruft Holliday, was born in Indianapolis , page: 150[View Page 150] on May 31, 1846. He was educated at Hanover College (A.B., 1864; A.M., 1867). During the Civil War he served in the 137th Indiana Volunteers.
In 1869 he founded the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and in 1899, with William J. Richards, founded the INDIANAPOLIS PRESS, which consolidated with the NEWS in 1901. from 1869 to 1892 he was editor of the NEWS. He was a banker–founder of the Union Trust Company in 1893–and a civic leader in the community.
He married Evaline M. Rieman Nov. 4, 1875, and died in Indianapolis on Oct. 20, 1921.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Pew to the Pulpit: an Address Delivered to the Graduating
Class of McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, Apr. 7, 1892.
n.p., 1892.
- The Hospital as a Public Charity: an Address to the
Indianapolis Medical Society … January Nineteenth, 1904.
Indianapolis, 1904.
- War and Precedents; Address.
Indianapolis, 1919.
- Third of a Century.
Indianapolis, n.d.
