County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by 
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, p. 377.

RICHARD H. HOLLAND was born in Christian County in February, 1857.  His 
father, John S. Holland, a well-known farmer, who died in Pembroke 
Precinct in 1867, came to this county from Virginia in 1834.  He was 
born in Virginia in June, 1830, and grew to manhood in this county.  In 
1855 he married to Miss Elizabeth Palmer, who was born in 1835 in 
Kentucky.  They had two children:  Linn McCauley Holland, born November, 
1855, and died in January, 1856; and Richard H. Holland.  John S. died 
in 1867, and his wife in 1859.  Richard H., after the death of his 
mother, was reared principally in the family of Capt. D. R. Beard in the 
town of Hopkinsville; he was educated in the Bethel Male College of 
Russellville, Logan County, Ky.; he began his practical business career 
as a farmer on the old homestead, and now owns a farming interest of 600 
acres in Pembroke Precinct of this county.  Since leaving the farm he 
has shown his enterprise by erecting an elegant opera building in 
Hopkinsville at a cost of $30,000.

Holland Palmer Beard
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VA Russellville-Logan-KY

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