the family name

July 21 2008 at 4:02 AM

kathryn 


Response to Doc Holliday and Emily Dickinson

The correct spelling is "Holladay" but poor Doc's name has been corrupted over the years. (That's fitting, I guess.) My three brothers got all kind of points for being related to him. Another cousin was the railroad baron, Ben Holladay. His name is all over Portland.

http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notholladay.htm

My own grandfather, Anderson Holladay, was a Civil War veteran. He was a teenager living in Kentucky at the time, and nobody in the family knows what side he fought for.

 
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