San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/11/2010
JOHN HOLMAN
The success achieved by John Holman has been the result entirely of his own efforts, for he came to California with nothing but courage, energy and determination as the foundation for the competency he hoped to win. A native of Illinois, he was born at Bloomington on July 4, 1873, a son of David and Anna (Langevin) Holman. His parents were both born in Alsace, coming from Millhausen on the Rhine, where the father was engaged in the cabinetmaking business. Coming to America when a young man, David Holman enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Volunteers and served throughout the Civil War. After the close of the war he settled in Illinois and engaged in farming on a quarter section of land he had purchased. There were three children in the family, John, the subject of this review, Dorothy, and Minnie.
John Holman attended the public school at Bloomington, Ill., and when he was fourteen years old went to Vandalia, Ill., and there learned the harness trade which occupied him for three years. In 1894 he decided to change his environment from the East to the West and upon his arrival in California located in Santa Cruz County where he was employed for the next twelve years.
On December 24, 1904, Mr. Holman was married to Miss Margaret Krauter, born near Strasbourg at Balbron in Alsace, a daughter of Michael and Selina Krauter, both parents natives of Alsace, where they engaged in farming. Mrs. Holman came to Santa Cruz when she was eighteen years old and there her marriage occurred. They are the parents of one son, John Jr., at home with his parents. In 1913 the family came to San Joaquin County where they purchased fifteen acres five and a half miles east of Lodi, which has recently been set to vineyard and a pumping plant has been installed. Politically he is a Republican and fraternally a member of the W.O.W. of Lodi and the Loyal Order of Moose of Lodi.
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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