Joseph Holland
(1861-1922)
MSA SC 3520-16855
Biography:
Joseph Holland was born September 4, 1861 to Richard and Alexina Holland of Annapolis, Maryland. Holland's father was a clerk, and his brothers all worked in skilled labor as machinists and cigar makers. By 1880, Joseph Holland was apprenticed as a bricklayer. The family lived on West Street, near Charles H. Obery Sr., whose son would later work with Joseph Holland.[1] Holland married his wife, Ida, in 1896. The couple had a son a year later named William and moved to Cornhill Street, near the Maryland State House.[2]
In 1906, Joseph Holland worked alongside Charles H. Obery Jr. on the chimney breast of the Old Senate Chamber. Work on the fireplace was a part of the extensive 1905 renovations that took place in the State House under architects Baldwin & Pennington. Holland and Obery had signed and dated the back of Obery's 1904 Bricklayer's Union of Maryland #5 card, which was discovered in the chimney breast on October 4, 2013.[3]
Joseph Holland died on October 25, 1922. He and his wife are buried together at Saint Anne's Cemetery in Annapolis.[4]
[1] Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA
microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the
Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.,
Ancestry.com.
[2] Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.:
National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls, Ancestry.com.
[3] State House Renovation Collection, Union Card of Charles H. Obery Jr., MSA SC 5830-1-4.
[4] Joseph
Holland, Find a Grave Memorial #57652216,
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57652216, accessed
10 October 2013.
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