A history of the Hole family in England and America . who took literally Pauls advice to Avoid foolish questions•nd genealogies, for they are unprofitable and vain. (Titus III., 9.)The writer of the Hole book is obliged to confess that more thanonce he has been inclined to consign certain members of the familywho have persistently neglected to answer letters and interrogatories,to that Hole in the bottom of the sea, where Mr. McGinty is sup-posed to have found his place of final sepulture. The splendid indifference of those who were in a position to givedates and facts will account for many of
A history of the Hole family in England and America . who took literally Pauls advice to Avoid foolish questions•nd genealogies, for they are unprofitable and vain. (Titus III., 9.)The writer of the Hole book is obliged to confess that more thanonce he has been inclined to consign certain members of the familywho have persistently neglected to answer letters and interrogatories,to that Hole in the bottom of the sea, where Mr. McGinty is sup-posed to have found his place of final sepulture. The splendid indifference of those who were in a position to givedates and facts will account for many of the gaps and omissions inthis volume. In preparing the genealogy of the Hole family, whichhas been made possible through the generosity of Leonard HannaHole, of N. Y., I have been especially helped by and here acknowl-edge the kindly services of Mr. Henry F. Hole, of Fairbury, Ne-braska; Mrs. Annie M. Hobson, of Athens, Ohio; Dean Hole, ofRochester, England, and Judge Warren W. Hole, of Salem, Ohio. Chas. Elmer , Ohio, Jan. 1, LEONARD MANNA HOLE. CHAPTER L NORSE AND ENGLISH ORIGIN OF THE HOLE FAMILY. Jacob Hole and Barbara his wife sailed from Plymouth, England,in 1740 aud landed after a tedious voyage of many weeks, in Phiia-?delphia. Just where these founders of the Hole family in America camefrom has never been known to their descendants. And it was notuntil the summer of 1900, when the writer was seat to Europe toprocure data, search records and write a family history, that we somuch as knew their nationality. It had been a tradition in the family that Jacob Hole was Ger-man and came to America from Germany; yet no proof whatever hadever been produced to substantiate the claim or prove the various intermarriages into the best E-iglish families of Pennsyl-vania and Virginia seemed to indicate that the Holes were of Englishorigin. A thorough search of English records and genealogies hasclearly shown that the name is English, though of Norse o
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