James R. Holgate

Dr. James R. Holgate, son of James and Sylvina (Trux) Holgate, was born September 24, 1841. His early years were passed in attending school or assisting in the home-farm work; but in 1866 he abandoned the idea of agricultural life, and the same year became a student of Push Medical College, Chicago, from which institution he graduated in February. 1869: the same year established his office at Castleton, and built up a reputation that is no disgrace to his family. On April 26, 1876, he married Miss Emma C, daughter of David and Harriet (Biglow) Stimpson, both natives of Canada, and granddaughter of Joseph and Nancy Stimpson, natives of England, of Scotch ancestry. Harriet Biglow is the daughter of Abel and Amelia Biglow; the former of Massachusetts, the latter of New Hampshire, who settled in Canada. Mrs. Holgate, however, was born in Ragor, N. Y., to which state her parents moved from Canada. Dr. Holgate and wife are the parents of five children, namely: Winser P., Leslie M., Jane, Reha and Bliss B. In politics he is Republican; in social matters, a member of the Masonic society and I. O. G. T.; and in religious matters, while conservatively Christian, like his people, is not a member of any one denomination, but a supporter of all.