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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramPortrait of William Mitchell Holifield.
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He was born October 7, 1858, in Atlanta, Georgia. He died May 15, 1899.
He moved to Pensacola in the 1870s where he was a cattleman, farmer, and grocer. He owned six or seven rental homes in Pensacola. He was shot by a dentist who owed him money but he left his wife well provided for. He was the husband of Minor Dansby, the daughter of Colonel Jacob Valentine Dansby (the "boss's daughter").
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