Holgate Family


Eliza Pace Gibbons Holgate
My great-great Grandmother
William Holgate
My great-great Grandfather















My great-great Grandfather William Holgate was a multi-talented man and very hard worker!  He was a brick maker, musician, and served as the "Road Overseer" for Apache County for a time.


St. Johns Herald & Apache News
4 August 1910

Wm. Holgate fired his brick kiln last week and will finish the burning this week.  These brick are for the new school house in the west part of town.  Mr. Holgate wants brick layers now to help on the building.








Snips & The St. Johns Herald Newspaper
4 June 1904




Wm. Holgate has the contract to make 100,000 brick, for the government school buildings at Zuni, N. M.  Mr. Holgate is now hunting men to labor for him.






St. Johns Herald Newspaper
17 July 1897

The directors of the St. Johns Stake Academy have given orders to William Holgate for 100,000 brick.  He has started to make them.






St. Johns Herald Newspaper
26 February 1898




The music was furnished by Messrs. August Mineer and William Holgate, and was most excellently rendered.







 Independence Day Program - 1890.
Singing by the Glee Club, under the direction of Wm. Holgate.













St. Johns Herald
20 January 1900



William Holgate, appointed Road Overseer for St. Johns District, Apache County, Arizona, for the year 1900.







St. Johns Herald
15 February 1902




Road overseer, Wm. Holgate is repairing the bridge over the Little Colorado at the east end of Commercial St.








Mary Holgate Nielsen
My Great Grandmother




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