Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Holmstrom, Peter E 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

PETER E. HOLMSTROM is numbered among the business men of Joliet where he is 
engaged in the grocery trade. His business is conducted according to honorable 
methods and with energy, and is affording the proprietor a comfortable income. 
The personal character of Mr. Holmstrom is such as to command the respect of 
all who know him, his intercourse with mankind being cordial and just, his 
duties as a citizen faithfully performed, and the utmost kindliness manifested 
by him in his domestic relations. In the Kingdom of Sweden, October 3, 1861, 
the eyes of our subject first opened to the light of day. His parents, Peter 
Johnson and Johannah Holmstrom, lived upon a farm in that land, whence they 
followed their son to America in 1883. He had crossed the briny deep two years 
before, coming directly to Joliet near which place he engaged in farming. He 
soon abandoned that occupation for his present business, with which he had 
become acquainted in his native land and which he has followed continuously 
since he resumed it here. Mr. Holmstrom exercises the elective franchise in 
behalf of the candidates on the Republican ticket, his judgment concurring in 
the principles which they are pledged to support. He belongs to the Royal 
Adelphia Insurance Company. His religious instincts are satisfied with the 
doctrines and practices of the Swedish Lutheran Church, with which he is 
identified. He chose as his companion in life Miss Alma Swanson, of a family 
which came from Sweden to America about eighteen years ago, and winning the 
consent of the estimable young lady, they were united in marriage July 5, 
1885. Their happy union has been blessed by the birth of one child—a charming 
daughter, Ruby A.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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