BIO: Samuel HOLMAN, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 217.
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  HOLMAN, SAMUEL, son of Conrad Holman, Jr., and Rachel Guss, was born 
in Chester county, Pa., January 11, 1793.  Conrad Holman, Sr., the 
grandfather, was born in New Castle county, Del., in 1738, and died at 
the residence of his son in Perry county, Pa., in 1822.  Conrad, Jr., 
born in Chester county in 1768, died in Perry county in 1841; he 
married Rachel, daughter of Charles Guss and Mary Shunk.  Samuel 
learned the trade of house carpenter, and came to Harrisburg after his 
majority, where he successfully pursued his business and was widely 
known as a builder and architect.  Among the public works constructed 
under his supervision and according to plans were bridges over the 
Susquehanna at Clark's Ferry and Harrisburg, and over the Schuylkill 
river at Schuylkill Falls.  He was the architect for the court houses 
at Lewistown and Harrisburg.  For several years he was supervisor of 
the public works between Columbia and Millerstown.  He was a man of 
much energy of character in whatever business he engaged.  During the 
war of 1812-14 he went as fifer in Captain Walker's company, which 
marched to the defense of Baltimore, and in his old age served as a 
volunteer for the defense of Harrisburg when, in 1863, it was 
threatened by General Lee.  He frequently was a member of the borough 
council, and took a deep interest in the prosperity of his adopted 
town.  He died at Harrisburg September 28, 1863.  Mr. Holman married, 
in 1822, Sarah, daughter of Daniel Hertz and Elizabeth Kisner; born at 
Harrisburg, December 5, 1800, and there died October 22, 1863.  They 
had five children living at the time of their death:  Ann Elizabeth, 
married Samuel Alleman, Rev. Samuel Augustus, William Simon, Mary 
Ellen, married Dr. A. L. Alstead, and Sarah Frances, married George A. 
Klugh.