Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Robert Thomas Holloway
HOLLOWAY, ROBERT THOMAS (1829–1906), inducted by 1920
Born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and educated at Kentucky Military Institute and Transylvania University, Robert Holloway moved to Illinois to practice law. In 1870, he acquired 7,000 acres in Warren County and founded the town of Alexis, Illinois. He built an outstanding herd of Shorthorns, naming the farm Durham Lawn. Colonel Holloway was more renowned for his Clydesdale horse operation, however, begun with his first importations from Scotland in 1873. At one point, he maintained the largest Clydesdale stud on either continent. Many of his horses were exported back to Scotland.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 113