San Bernardino County and Riverside County, California Biographies

History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties 
By: John Brown, Jr., Editor for San Bernardino County 
And James Boyd, Editor for Riverside County 
With selected biography of actors and witnesses of the period 
of growth and achievement.
Volume III, the Western Historical Association, 1922, 
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL

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ISAAC ALLEN HOLEMAN
 
         Isaac Allen Holeman has been a resident of Riverside twenty years, and while 
he has invested capital in this district he has taken little part in active business affairs. 
He is a loyal and enthusiastic Californian, and a man of the highest standing in 
Riverside, where his fellow citizens respect his judgment and integrity and know him 
as one of the most public-spirited men in the community. Mr. Holeman was born in 
Warren County, Illinois, May 11, 1858, son of Reuben and Susanna (Crabb) Holeman 
His parents moved to Illinois at an early date, and spent most of their lives on a farm 
in Warren County. Isaac Allen Holeman grew up in Central Illinois, graduated from 
the city schools of Monmouth, and after completing his education returned to the farm 
and gained his prosperity from the corn belt of Illinois. In 1900 he moved to Riverside 
and purchased an orange grove, but has practically retired from its active management, 
though he holds considerable stock in the Cressmer Manufacturing Company. Mr. 
Holeman is a democrat in politics, like his father before him. He has never been 
interested in public office as an honor, though he performed his duty for a number of 
years as road overseer in Warren County, Illinois. At Richmond, Indiana, in 1886 Mr. 
Holeman married Miss Melvina A. Stephensen, who was born in Indiana, representing 
an old American family of Revolutionary stock, and English descent, Mr. and Mrs. 
Holeman have two sons: George S., born in 1887, graduated in medicine from Stanford 
University, subsequently took special work in surgery, and is now engaged in a 
successful practice at Portland, Oregon. November 16, 1920, he married Miss Estella 
Buckley, of San Francisco. The younger son, Roy Holeman, born in 1889, completed 
the scientific agricultural course at the State University and is now a practical agriculturist 
at Van Nuys, California. In 1916 he married Miss Nellie Ross, of Riverside.
 
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Transcribed and submitted by Sally Kaleta, January 2010.