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Robert Holliway, a blacksmith of Linn, Osage Co., Mo., was born about three miles south of Linn, in the year 1839, and is a son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Goodman) Holliway. Harrison Holliway was born in Kentucky in 1812, and when young removed with his father, Jonathan Holliway, to Callaway County, Mo., and thence, in 1818, to Osage County, where Harrison Holliway married and located on Swan Creek. He died in 1880, and his widow, who was a native of Virginia, died in 1886. They had twelve children, as follows: Robert; Susan (deceased), who married James Thornton; Elizabeth, wife of William A. McDaniel; John (deceased), William H., now in California; Mary L., wife of David Huckstep; Benjamin F. (deceased); Nancy, who married C. Blair, of Kansas; Henry L.; Emily J., now Mrs. Arthur Parks, of Kansas; Leander and George. Jonathan Holliway, paternal grandfather of our subject, was a member of the State Legislature from Osage County. Robert Holliway spent his early life on his father’s farm, and in 1859 began to learn the blacksmith’s trade. He served an apprenticeship of two years and then purchased his uncle’s shop. In 1862 he went to Van Buren, Osage County, where he worked at his trade two years, at the end of which time he bought a farm in Osage County, locating near his former home, about three miles south of Linn; at the latter place he successfully followed his trade until 1885, when he removed to Linn, where he now lives and devotes his attention principally to blacksmithing. August 22, 1862, Mr. Holliway married Sarah E. Huckstep, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1838, and was a daughter of Walker Huckstep. To this union were born six children, viz.: James Harrison, John F., Florence, Charles W., Louise and Sarah E. Mrs. Holliway died October 22, 1886, and July 5, 1888, Mr. Holliway married Ruberta Campbell, who was born in Virginia in 1839, and is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Holliway owns 525 acres of land, and is one of the enterprising citizens and kindly neighbors of Linn. His political sympathies are with the Democratic party.