Sacramento County
Biographies
LESTER E. HOLT
LESTER E. HOLT.--The encouraging progress in artistic painting of recent years is shown in the interesting displays, from time to time, of Messrs. Holt Brothers, so ably represented by Lester E. Holt, whose parents were Charles A. and Mary Elizabeth (Bowden) Holt, the former a pioneer of California who located in Butte County in the middle seventies, and later was married to a native daughter from Oroville. Mr. Holt was one of the early workers in sheet-metal, and for a while he was established in San Francisco; but later he removed to Sacramento, and he is still living there, as active as ever in his chosen field, determined to continue his record of exceptional usefulness as long as he is able. Mrs. Holt is also among the living, and very much alive as the center of a circle of devoted friends.
Lester Holt was born at Chico, on January 3, 1894, attended the public schools, and then, from 1909 to 1915, engaged in the butcher business. After that, for two years, he worked in a dairy. Just when he was getting ready to determine his life labors, however, the war called for his services, and he responded patriotically by entering the United States Army, and joining the 148th Field Artillery. He went to France, and remained there eleven months; and then he spent eight months with the Army of Occupation in Germany. He was rated as a cook, when discharged; and on regaining his freedom from military service, he joined his brother, Percy La Rue Holt, formed the firm of Holt Bros., which is a valued member of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, and at 2735 Franklin Boulevard has since devoted himself to artistic painting, with the result that more and more his services have been in demand.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 854. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.