Ella Virginia Houck Holloway (Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway) This page is a work in progress....stop back soon for much more.... Maryland Patriot and protector of the Flag of the United States and the National Anthem- The Star Spangled Banner. She was the guiding force which convinced Helen and John Charles Linthicum to work on her behalf to introduce and support legislation recognizing the song as the official national anthem. Recognition of the anthem by Congress was just one part of the development of what might be considered the "cult of nationalism" by the children of the post civil war period-the children of the Gilded Age.
Birth: Sep.
3, 1862
Baltimore City Maryland, USA Death: Nov. 3, 1940 Baltimore City, Maryland,USA For the main menu click here
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Reuben Ross
Holloway Geneology The
ancestry of Reuben Ross Holloway is traced through
maternal lines to Edward
Foulke, who was born in Wales, May 13, 1651, came to
America in 1698, and died
November 8, 1741. His wife, Eleanor, born in Wales, died
in Gwynedd,
Pennsylvania, January 16, 1733. The line of descent from
Edward and Eleanor
Foulke to Reuben Ross Holloway is traced through their
daughter, Margaret
Foulke, born in Wales, who died, March 23, 1717, in
Pennsylvania. She married
Nicholas Roberts, who died in 1733. The line continues
through their daughter,
Elizabeth Roberts, born June 11, 1723, died May 29,
1790, who married, February
12, 1743, David Humphrey, son of Robert and Margaret
(Evans) Humphrey, of
Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. Their daughter, Elizabeth
Humphrey, born in Gwynedd,
March 13, 1761, died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29,
1847, her husband,
Sabritt Bowen, surviving her. Eleanor Humphrey Bowen,
daughter of Sabritt and
Elizabeth (Humphrey) Bowen, was born in January, 1792,
died November 2, 1874,
married Robert Holloway, of Virginia, born in 1786, died
January, 1863, leaving
a son, Charles Thomas Holloway. He married Anna Harden
Ross, they the parents
of Reuben Ross Holloway, to whose memory this review is
devoted. Charles
Thomas Holloway, son of
Robert and Eleanor Humphrey (Bowen) Holloway, was born
December 25, 1827, died
in Baltimore, Maryland, March 17, 1898. He was an
influential man of his day,
head of the Charles T. Holloway Chemical Fire Engine
Company of Baltimore, a
company devoted to the manufacture of a fire
extinguisher and a chemical fire
engine, both inventions of Charles T. Holloway, and
bearing his name both as an
inventor and maker. He married October 12, 1854, Anna
Harden Ross, born July
13, 1830, died January 31, 1909, daughter of Reuben and
Sarah Ross. Reuben
Ross Holloway, son of Charles
T. and Anna Harden (Ross) Holloway, was born in
Baltimore, Maryland, June 13,
1855, and died in his native city, December 13, 1908.
After finishing his
school years he became associated with his father in the
manufacture of the
special lines of the Charles T. Holloway Chemical Fire
Engine Company, and
when, in 1898, the father passed to the spirit land, he
was succeeded by his
son as head of the business. Mr. Holloway continued the
manufacture of the
Holloway extinguisher and chemical fire engine for some
time, then sold his
right, title, and interest, to the American La France
Fire Engine Company, and
from that time until his death was manager of the
Baltimore branch of that
company, and a member of its board of directors. He was
a member of high degree
in the Masonic order, and belonged to several social and
patriotic
organizations, among them the Sons of the American
Revolution, he serving the
local chapter as treasurer. Reuben
R. Holloway married, January 28, 1892, Ella Virginia
Houck, daughter of Dr.
Jacob Wever and Susannah (Porter) Houck. Mrs.
Holloway survives her husband, a resident of Baltimore,
with two children,
Virginia Leslie, born November 18, 1892, married, April
26, 1913, Ernest Smith
Jeffries, their children: Ernest Smith (2) Jeffries,
born April 2, 1914;
Virginia L. Jeffries, born July, 1916; Charles Thomas
(2) Holloway, born March
22, 1897, married June 20, 1918, Frances A. Fuller, of
Worcester,
Massachusetts. Ella
Virginia (Houck) Holloway traces her ancestry to
Lieutenant Robert Porter, of
Back River Neck, Porters Bar, Maryland, an officer of
the Revolution. He was
born in 1757, died March 16, 1810. He was commissioned
first lieutenant in the
Third Regiment of Maryland Troops, February 20, 1777,
resigned in April, 1777,
married Susannah Buck, born in 1772, who died September
1, 1845. The line of
descent is through their son, James Porter, born in
1797, died September 30,
1843. James Porter married November 26, 1829, Elizabeth
Frances Todd, born
January 29, 1809, died in July, 1860, daughter of
Bernard and Mary (Green)
Todd, of an ancient Maryland family (q. v.). The
line continues through
Susannah Porter, daughter of James and Elizabeth Frances
(Todd) Porter, born
September 26, 1832, died in May, 1911. She married,
November 15, 1852, Dr.
Jacob Wever Houck, and they were the parents of Ella
Virginia Houck, widow of
Reuben Ross Holloway. The
Todd ancestry of Ella V. (Houck) Holloway begins in
Maryland, with Thomas Todd,
of "Toddsbury," Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1664,
who settled at
the North Point farm in Baltimore county, Maryland, now
called "Todd's
Inheritance," which is still in the possession of the
family. v He was a
son of Thomas Todd, who is mentioned in the records of
York county, Virginia,
in 1642, and who bought land in Gloucester county in
1652. His eldest son,
William, patented 500 acres in that county, in 1666.
Thomas Todd served as
burgess of Baltimore county from 1674 to 1675. His will
dated April 11, 1676,
was the first recorded in Baltimore county. He died on
board the ship
"Virginia," bound for England. Thomas Todd married Ann
Gorsuch,
daughter of the Rev. John Gorsuch, Vicar of Walkam
Parish, Herefordshire,
England, and granddaughter of Sir William Lovelace.
Their children were:
Thomas, of further mention; Christopher; James; William;
Phillip; Joanna;
Frances and Averilla. -Spencer, Richard, Henry, Genealogical and
Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland, 1919.
Virginia Leslie
Holloway and Ernest Jefferies had a third child, Eleanor
Gorsuch, born May 19, 1920 in Hamilton, Ontario.
Eleanor
married Ellicott Gordon Ellicott of Baltimore, Maryland,
son of Maurice Tyson Ellicott and Eugenie Marie Dryden.
-Marilyn Ellicott
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Views An outspoken woman, Holloway wasn't afraid to voice her
opinions. She was
against: National prohibition. Women's Suffrage and jury service ("A woman's place is in
the
home."). Recognition of communist Russia. Birth control ("That's a doctor's business."). Giving American citizenship to Albert Einstein ("He
admitted he was a
pacifist."). She was for: A big army and navy. Buying American products. The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. -Baltimore Sun |
She always appeared in public
wearing a tall shako, a cylindrical beaver hat
with plume, that rose a foot above her head. "The
general
contours of my hat and the Constitution of the United
States must remain
unchanged," she told The Sun in 1937. "Some persons said she loved
it because it resembled the Shot Tower,
next to where she was born," observed the newspaper. -Baltimore Sun |
Misc. Information Dar Listing for Holloway Lineage Book, Vol. 43, Daughters
of the American
Revolution, 1916,p.113. MRS.
ELLA VIRGINIA HOUCK HOLLOWAY.
42298 Born
in Baltimore, Maryland. Descendant
of Lieut. Robert Porter,
of Maryland. Granddaughter
of James Porter and Elizabeth Todd, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Robert
Porter and Susannah Buck (1772-1845), his wife. Robert
Porter, (1757-1810), served
as lieutenant in the Blue book The Greenway
Apts. University 6,000
1939 |
Obituary Holloway was 78 at her death in 1940 in the old Marine
Hospital in Wyman
Park, Baltimore. To return to the top click here |
Burial Druid Ridge Cemetary, Baltimore, Maryland Center left To return to the top click here |