D. R. Holland, farmer and citizen of the Eighth District, and son of Preston and Sarah H. (Cole) Holland, was born in Dyer County, in 1850, and is one of ten children; eight are now living. The father was born in 1809, in North Carolina, and moved with his parents to Middle Tennessee when he was quite young, and a few years after to Gibson County, where his parents died. In 1838 he married Sarah H. Cole, and in 1839 moved to Dyer County, and for a few years followed the blacksmith's trade, at the same time buying and selling real estate, and finally located seven miles southeast of Newbern, where he died March, 1874. Mrs. Holland was born in Williamson County, in 1819, and is still living. D. R. Holland was educated at home, and December 2, 1869, married Miss M. Angeline, daughter of Archibald and Mary Wilkins; they have seven children: Ada E., Archie P., Arthur D., Austin B., Hattie Mary, Estella Ann and Wilma W. When Mr. Holland married, he was living in Missouri, but a year later moved to Dyer County, and continued farming. He now owns 209 acres of rich land nicely improved, six miles southeast of Newbern. Mrs. Holland was born in Dyer County, in 1851; her father was a native of North Carolina, and died in 1868; her mother was born in Middle Tennessee, and died in 1866. Mr. Holland is conservative in politics, and member of the Masonic fraternity, and both his wife and himself are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a kind neighbor and a man highly respected.