San
Joaquin County
Biographies
F. JULIUS HOLM
The proprietor of a general
merchandise store at Avena Station, San Joaquin
County, F. Julius Holm is also postmaster at Ellisworth,
California, 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. The 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 ranches for a radius of six miles. Mr. Holm petitioned for a post office 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.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1613-1614. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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