BIOGRAPHIES:   Christian HOLMAN, Cameron, Barron County, WI

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Christian Holman, until recently a well-to-do farmer of Section 33, Stanley
Township, but now operating a grist mill in Cameron village, was born in
Norway, Sept. 17, 1872, the son of John and Mary Holman. He came to this
country with his mother in 1883, and settled with them a mile east of the
present village of Cameron. The second day after his arrival here, although
only twelve years of age he started out or himself by finding employment with
a neighbor, receiving but little more than board and clothing, and turning
over to his parents what little he did earn. He was but fourteen years of age
when he first went into the lumber woods, and thereafter continued for several
years. As a young man he began renting farms in Maple Grove Township, this
county. In 1906 he bought a farm of 83 acres in Section 33. This was at that
time partly improved and he continued the improvements. In 1915 he remodeled
the house, and in 1918 put up a new barn, 34 by 70 feet. Other suitable
buildings were erected as necessity has required. Mr. Holman had a fine herd
of Holstein cattle and a good drove of Poland China swine, and successfully
carried on general farming and dairying. He is a man of influence in the
township and has served on the board of supervisors. He is president of the
Farmers Telephone Co. of Cameron, and a stockholder in the State Bank of
Cameron. He has been trustee of the Norwegian Lutheran Congregation since the
present church was erected. In August 1921, Mr. Holman sold his farm and
bought a grist mill, residence and ten acres of land in the village of
Cameron, where he and his family now reside. Mr. Holman was married Oct. 22,
1898, in Stanley Township, to Ida Lewis, who was born in Maple Grove Township,
this county, Dec. 18, 1879, the daughter of Gilbert and Mary Lewis. This union
has been blessed with ten children: Guy James, born July 19, 1899; Arthur
William, born April 2, 1901; Henry, born Feb. 28, 1903, who died Jan. 6, 1912;
Harold, born Jan. 2, 1905; Mabel, born July 13, 1907; Albert, born July 25,
1909; Malcolm, born May 3, 1911; Helen, born July 2, 1914; Grace, born Sept.
5, 1916, and Robert, born Feb. 27, 1920.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 750-751