Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (died 1900)

Cyrus K. Holliday

American railroad executive (1826–1900)

Colonel Cyrus Kurtz Holliday was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the township of Topeka, Kansas, in the mid 19th century; and was Adjutant General of Kansas during the American Civil War. The title Colonel, however, was honorary. He was the first…