Notes for Jasper Land Holland: Jasper lost 3 fingers on his left hand while employed at the Holland family cotton gin (Drum Hill, Nansemond Co., Va.) in 1921.
In 1922 he was employed by the Virginia Department of Transportation as an assistant engineer during the widening and paving of hwy. 460 between Suffolk and Holland, Va.
In 1925 he was employed by a Mr. Berman who owned an antique shop on E. Washington, St., Suffolk, Va. Also worked as a stone engraver for Suffolk Monument works. Many lovely stones in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Suffolk, Va.) bear his engravers mark.
Little is known of his first wife, Mary Lee Harvel. Together they had one child, Doris Dale Holland who died of spinal meningitis. The death of his child was a massive blow to Jasper. He left Suffolk, and for some years resided in Philadelphia, employed by the US Treasury Department (along with his future brother in law Edison M. Evans.
In 1939 Jasper returned to the Suffolk area as an inspector for the War Department. His work carried him throughout the tidewater area and while on an inspection trip to St. Julian's Creek Army Ammunition Depot in 1942 an explosion in one of the bomb rooms cost him another 4 fingers.
Jasper was a consulting authority whose expertise and vast knowledge of seventeenth and eighteenth century furniture construction methods was utilized by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation on numerous occasions.
Upon recovery from the disfiguring accident he established Holland's Antique Repair Shop at 417 Madison Avenue in Suffolk. The business prospered and Jasper remained at the same location until his death in 1975.
More About Jasper Land Holland: Burial: November 24, 1975, Holland, Nansemond Co., Va., Holland Municipal Cem..62, 63, 64 Education: 1918, Graduated school in Holland, Nansemond Co., Va.. Obit: November 02, 1975, Norfolk Virginia-Pilot. Occupation: Bet. 1944 - 1975, Antique shop owner.65 Religion: Suffolk Congregational Christian Church, Holland, Va.. Residence: 1975, 313 Cedar St., Suffolk, VA.
Jasper Land Holland (b. September 18, 1900, d. November 21, 1975)
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