San Joaquin County Biographies


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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, Ill., and when he 
was fourteen years old went to Vandalia, Ill., 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 when 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.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1614       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.