Sacramento County
Biographies
PERCY LA RUE HOLT
PERCY LA RUE HOLT.--Another very interesting representative of one of the best known of Sacramento industrial firms is Percy La Rue Holt, of Messrs. Holt Bros., the auto-painters, who is associated with his brother, Lester E. Holt, whose life story is sketched elsewhere in this volume. He was born at Chico, on July 10, 1889, the son of Charles A. and Mary Elizabeth (Bowden) Holt, his father having come out to the Golden State in 1875, while his mother was a native of Butte County, having been born near Oroville. Mr. Holt settled at Chico, and they were married in that locality. He was a sheet-metal worker, and one of the best of his day; and for a while he led in that industry in the bay city. Now he is living, and active in business, as of yore, in Sacramento, enjoying the companionship of his devoted wife.
Percy Holt had a public-school education, and then worked in a drug-store. Next he engaged in newspaper work, and then he learned the harness business. In 1912, he took up painting; and for the past two years, or since the end of the World War, he has been associated with his brother, Lester, in the firm of Holt Bros., and with him has been very successful as one of the most artistic, practical painters in either city or county of Sacramento. He is a lover of outdoor sport and enjoys fishing. In politics he is a Democrat and is always a most patriotic citizen, especially devoted to the locality in which he lives and prospers.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 873. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.