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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, Illinois, and when he was fourteen years old went to
Vandalia, Illinois, 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
where 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.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1614. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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