Ole Anderson Holm Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. 
	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 435-436

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OLE ANDERSON HOLM, a well known farmer of Brookings township, 
represents one of the oldest and most respected families of the county.  
He was born at Moshoen Helgaland, Norway, June 12, 1865, a son of John 
Anderson and Ellen (Matteson) Holm.  J. A. Holm was also a native of 
Norway and a farmer by profession.  His father, Andrew Holm, was a 
school teacher.  In 1870, J. A. Holm came with his family to the United 
States, being six weeks en route to New York.  The family located first 
at Lansing, Iowa, and moved from thence to Worth county, Iowa. The 
following year they moved to Lyon county, Iowa.  In 1878 Mr. Holm went 
to Brookings county, South Dakota, and located a homestead claim on 
section 6, Brookings township, made some improvements that season, and 
the next season moved his family thither together with all his effects, 
in a wagon, drawn by oxen, and also drove a few cows from Iowa.  He 
then drew lumber from Goodwin, Dakota, a distance of thirty-five miles, 
to build a small house which he partly covered with sods.  J. A. Holm 
died in Brookings county August 12, 1892, at the age of sixty-five 
years.  Mrs. Ellen Holm is now over sixty years of age.  They were the 
parents of eleven children, six of whom are now living:  Mattie, wife 
of O. Odegaard, Brookings, South Dakota; Ole Anderson, Jensine, wife of 
James Jamison; Clark county,  South  Dakota;  Emma; Alfred; Edwin; 
Sophia, Mrs. Albert Odegaard, died March 13, 1897, at the age of 
twenty-nine years; and Ida died June 5, 1892, at the age of twenty-two 
years.  The others died in infancy.

Ole A. Holm, the subject of this sketch, was five years of age when his 
parents moved to America.  He attended the district school in Iowa and 
South Dakota. He was but thirteen years of age when he moved with his 
parents to South Dakota and has since made that his home.  In business 
matters he has been quite successful, and has accumulated a large 
amount of means and has a pleasant and comfortable home.  He now 
operates a farm of  two hundred  and forty acres, which includes the 
homestead,  and  gives special attention  to stock-raising and 
dairying.  In public matters he  always heartily seconds every project 
which tends to the promotion of the general welfare and the development 
of the business or social interests of his adopted township, and aids 
materially in various ways in the upbuilding and strengthening of good 
local government, and his fellow citizens have shown their confidence 
in him by electing him to various school and township offices.  
Politically he has been associated with the Populist party ever since 
its organization.  The family attend the Lutheran church in Sterling 
township, and our subject and all of his brothers are members of the 
singing society which is connected with the church.