San Joaquin County Biographies
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F. JULIUS HOLM
The proprietor of a general merchandise store at Avena Station, San Joaquin County, F. Julius Holm is also postmaster at Ellisworth, Cal., and ticket agent for the Santa Fe Railroad Company at the same place since 1898 and he has filled all three positions creditably and efficiently. He was born at Hasle on the Island of Bornholm, Denmark, February 14, 1858, and received his education in the public schools of his native place. Early in life he began to earn his own living and entered a larger store at Rona, Denmark, as a clerk where he worked in the daytime and attended commercial school at night for five years. At the age of twenty-one years he entered the army of his country where he served for eighteen months. Returning to civilian life he became the manager of the store where he had formerly clerked, remaining until he was twenty-five years old. He then returned to Hasle to be with his parents and there established a general merchandise store which he conducted for the following eight years and during this time his parents both passed away. In 1891 Mr. Holm came to California with the intention of returning to his native land, but after a visit to his uncle, Esper H. Due, who was living near Atlanta on a large farm, he liked the country and the people and decided to make California his permanent home and so engaged in farm work near Atlanta for seven years. He received his citizenship papers in 1896. In 1898 he purchased the first building erected in Avena from W.B. Buckman where he established his store, and his business has so increased that he supplies the ranchers for a radius of six miles. Mr. Holm petitioned for a postoffice at Ellisworth and on April 1, 1901, received the appointment as postmaster from Postmaster General Smith under President McKinley, and is postmaster still. In October, 1897, the first Santa Fe train passed through Avena and this station was among the first to receive shipments of grapes and hay in car lots; for ten years Mr. Holm conducted a shipping station for the San Joaquin and Stockton creameries. Mr. Holm is an ardent advocate of good roads and the splendid roads of the locality are, in a great measure, due to his untiring efforts.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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