Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Holm, Ferdinand 1846 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Ferdinand Holm, a successful farmer of Sedgwick county, Kan., was born June
17, 1846, near Meldorf, Germany. His parents were Hans and Margaret (Jurgan)
Holm. He is in line of direct descent from the house of Piel, who were court
officials under Adolphus of Sweden. Mr. Holm received his education in Germany,
after which he entered the wholesale and retail grocery business in Meldorf,
Germany. Because of ill health he left this work and spent the next seven years
on the ocean, stopping at all ports of the commercial world. He came to the
United States in 1869 and located first at Pittsburg, Pa., where he spent three
years mining. On February 4, 1872, Mr. Holm was married to Miss W. Elizabeth
Lorenz von Frederickshof, Eddelac, Germany. This was the culmination of a
romance which had begun in their school days. Miss W. Elizabeth had come to New
York in 1871 with school friends.

   In July, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Holm came to Sedgwick county, Kan., and preempted
160 acres of land in what is now Section 23, Attica township. Seven children
were born to this union, of whom five are now living, viz.: Lily, Emma, Ida,
Florence and Elizabeth. Two boys are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Holm together braved
the pioneers' struggles and won the land from the prairie to make it their own.
Fraternally Mr. Holm is a member of the Masonic order, being a member of
Florence Lodge No. 86 of Wichita, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of
Goddard, Kan.


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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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