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Housing Units (2000): 846
Land area (2000): 1.266404 sq. miles (3.279972 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.266404 sq. miles (3.279972 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35155
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.225671 N, 78.027801 W
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Headwords:
Holley
Wikipedia
Holley can refer to:
Holley is an English surname. It is either locational, ultimately derived an Old English hol lēah "[dwelling by] the clearing by the hollow", or descriptive, from hol-ēage "hollow-eyed". A masculine given name Hollie was derived from the surname, recorded in the United States for the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Addison Holley, actress
- Alexander H. Holley, a Governor of Connecticut
- Alexander Lyman Holley, mechanical engineer
- Charles Hardin Holley, real name of singer Buddy Holly
- George Holley (1885–1942), England international footballer
- Horace Holley (1781-1827), Unitarian minister and president of Transylvania University
- Horace Holley (1887-1960), prominent follower of the Bahá'í Faith
- James W. Holley, III, politician
- Kerrie Holley, software architect
- Lonnie Holley, artist
- Marietta Holley, humourist
- Michael Holley, sports commentator
- Myron Holley (1779–1841), NY politician
- Orville L. Holley (1791–1861), NYS Surveyor General 1838-1842
- Robert W. Holley, biochemist
- Sam Holley, Baseball umpire
Usage examples of "holley".
She had slotted a cassette of Buddy Holley and the Crickets' greatest hits into the Blaupunkt player.
She took another drink as Buddy Holley tore into Tommy Roe's "Hurray for Hazel," then a quick verse of "Sheila," finally a lugubrious, almost-bluesy version of Bobby Vinton's "Red Roses for a Blue Lady".
He watched Buddy Holley slog through the dismal pop retrospective and started getting real depressed.
It was enough to make him maybe wish that Holley had died at the height of his initial popularity and not survived to fall into this ghastly self-mockery.
It appeared that most in the lounge had completely forgotten that Buddy Holley was performing onstage.
When Holley came to the end of his set, he introduced the final number very simply.
Then she got up and collared Buddy Holley as he headed toward the bar.
She launched into her spiel about the benefit at the Funhouse, about how Holley could go on early in the following Saturday's performance, that maybe he could do a medley of the music that had propelled him to superstardom in the fifties and early sixties, that perhaps-just maybe--the concert and the telecast could rejuvenate his career.
It seemed very important to secure Buddy Holley for the Funhouse benefit.
While there were quite a few key-word entries for Shrike Music, but not many for Buddy Holley, there was one story that flagged both.
That man told her the Buddy Holley matter was not his to comment upon, but that she should send a detailed letter to Monopoly's president, one Connel McCray.
The long distance call to Nassau got her a heavily accented Bahamian voice claiming complete confusion about this Holley chap.
When Buddy Holley went into the bathroom, Jack set the mysterious cassette in the deck and punched "play.
Buddy Holley said, "After the plane went down with my family, and Shrike bought all my music, people seemed to think I just wasn't gonna write anymore.
Buddy Holley and I need to find out who really owns his music, so I can get permission for him to sing it, and I can convince him to appear Saturday-"