HARVEY B. HOLLOMAN was born in Hopkins County, Ky., November 18, 1840, to Miles B. and Amanda (Headley) Holloman, natives of North Carolina and Virginia, and of English descent. When only ten or twelve years old, Miles B. Holloman came with his parents to what is now Hopkins, but was then a part of Henderson County, Ky., his parents being among the first settlers of the county. His father bought wild land in the western part of the county and improved a farm, upon which he resided until his death. On this place Miles B. was employed until he attained his majority, and in this county he was educated and married. His father gave him a tract of wild land some two miles south of Providence, which he improved and resided upon until his death, March 4, 1852, in his forty-third year. Harvey B., at the age of fifteen, commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, and served an apprenticeship of five years in Providence, which has been his home ever since, with the exception of three years. At the age of twenty he commenced at the trade on his own account and has been so employed ever since. For the past ten years he has been contracting. He was first married, in 1862, to Miss Mary J. Kirkwood, a native of Hopkins County. Two children, Everett G. and Mary J., were the fruit of this union. Mrs. Mary J. Holloman died in 1865, and Mr. Holloman was next married, in 1867, to Mrs. Joanna E. (Kirkwood) Washburn, also a native of Hopkins County, and a sister of his former wife. They have no children. Mrs. Holloman is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Holloman is a Democrat.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1036.