Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 488. JOHN B. HOLMAN one of the extensive and substantial farmers of Sherman county, resides five miles southeast of Moro. He was born in Sweden, October 25, 1856, the son of Gabriel and Johanna (Barge) Holman, natives of Sweden, where the mother now lives, and where the father died in 1901 aged seventy-four years. Gabriel Holman was a woolen weaver and his father was a seafaring man trading out of Halmstad where our subject was educated in the public schools. In 1871 he came to the United States remaining in New York city two years, where he found employment in a car-spring factory. Thence he went to Virginia City, Nevada, where he worked at various employments one year, mining, etc. Then he went to Plumas county, California, where for the succeeding six months he followed mining. Having spent a few months in San Francisco he returned to Virginia City, but six months afterward he was back in California conducting a chicken and turkey ranch in Butte county. Here he remained two years, and in 1882 came to Sherman county, Oregon, arriving with no capital. Despite this handicap he took up a half section of land and industriously began improving the same. His two brothers, also, secured claims adjoining him, and while they continued to work out for other farmers our subject devoted his entire attention to improvement of the claims. Mr. Holman how owns five hundred and seventy acres and rents eight hundred and eighty acres more, mostly land belonging to his brothers. He owns a threshing outfit in partnership with the Barnum Brothers. At the residence of the bride's parents, in Sherman county, December 25, 1886, Mr. Holman was united in marriage to Lizzie Maxwell, born in Arkansas, October 21, 1868. Her father David Maxwell, a native of Alabama, now lives in Washington county, Oregon. Our subscriber has three, brothers; Martin, of Portland, who owns a place adjoining him; Charles, a merchant in Sweden; and Axel, also of Sweden, where he is a manufacturer and merchant. To Mr. and Mrs. Holman three children have been born: Nellie, aged sixteen; Martha, aged fourteen; and Lillian, aged three years. Our subject, fraternally, is a" member of the A. 0. U. W., of Moro. Politically, he is independent. In the community in which he resides Mr. Holman is highly esteemed and popular among a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.