JOHN J. HOLOHAN
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 641

John J. Holohan is now living in retirement in Phoenix after 
a long and successful business career in Arizona extending 
over a period of thirty seven years. He has been a resident 
of this state since 1879 but was born in Ireland in 1849, a 
son of John and Mary Holohan, both of whom died on the 
Emerald Isle.  To their union were born six children, all 
of whom came to America: Maggie ,the wife of Walter Mills, 
of Los Angeles; Della, the widow of Michael Hough, also of 
Los Angeles; Babe, who is the widow of J.J. Maloney and who 
is now temporarily residing in Ireland; Thomas, a soldier 
in the U.S. army who died in New York state; John J. of this 
review and Mary Shannon, who died in Chicago.

John J. Holohan came to America when he was thirteen years 
of age and settled first in Chicago, Illinois, making his 
home with an aunt who had previously removed to the United 
States. In 1870 he went to San Francisco and for a short 
time worked as brakeman for the Southern Pacific Railroad, 
later purchasing a saloon, which he conducted for a few 
years.  In 1879 he left California and came to Arizona, 
working for a time in the McMorris Mines in Richmond Basin 
but locating shortly afterward in Globe, where he rented a 
store and established himself in the liquor business.  Later 
he sold that enterprise and buying a herd of cattle, stocked 
a small ranch, dividing his attention between its conduct and 
the operation of some mining properties which he had acquired. 
He continued his identification with both until 1902, when he 
disposed of his mining and stock raising interests to Robert 
Sloan and became connected with the Old Dominion Mine at 
Globe. In that position he remained three years and afterward 
worked at various occupations until he put aside the cares of 
active life and retired.  He owns three residence properties 
in Globe, valuable business blocks in Phoenix, one on Adams 
Street and the other at the corner of Fourth and Polk Streets, 
and is a stockholder in the Arizona Record, deriving from these 
sources a comfortable annual income.

In 1876 Mr. Holohan married Miss Annie Ryan, a native of 
Ireland, whose parents died in that country.  She afterward 
came to America, settling in Madison, Wisconsin, when she was 
fourteen years of age.  She continued to reside in that city 
until she went to Chicago and from there she proceeded to San 
Francisco, where she remained until her marriage.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Holohan became the parents of seven children: John J., 
who was murdered in 1896 while on a roundup in Horseshoe Bend, 
Gila County; Thomas, Babe and William, all of whom died of 
diphtheria within three days of each other; May, who was born 
in Globe and married Stephen Tillman, an electrician in the 
employ of the Old Dominion Mine; Pearl, also a native of Globe 
and now the wife of Edgar Griffin, a merchant of Phoenix; and 
Ella, who was born in Globe and married Henry Maffeo, also a 
mining electrician.  Mrs. Holohan who passed away in 1898 was 
a devout member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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