Biography from History of Becker County, by Alvin H. Wilcox (1907), 
page 622

W. P. Holliday 


As a further evidence that Osage is a good place to live, we give an 
account of W. P. Holliday. A Canadian by birth, born August 23rd, 1849,
in Ontario, he emigrated to Meeker County, Minnesota, in 1878, and two
years later he was in Cormorant Township, Becker County. Five years later
he took up a homestead in Osage Township. Here he lived seven years, and 
again moved to Cormorant Township. He had the misfortune of losing his
first wife during this move, and had equally good luck two years later in
finding another. Again he moved to Osage, 1901, and has since remained
upon his homestead. He says that he has lived in a good many places, but
Osage suits him best of all, and that if anyone can make an honest living
he can do it in Osage Township.


Submitted by Brenda Wieland