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A History of the Northern Peninsula
and its People, Vol. 2
Alvah Littlefield Sawyer, 1911

        [666-667]

        HERMAN HOLMES - Prominent in social and political circles, HERMAN
     HOLMES, of Crystal Falls, is an excellent representative of the
     Swedish-born citizens who have contributed their full share towards
     the advancement of the material interests of the Upper Peninsula.  A
     son of NELS A. HOLMES, he was born, October 3, 1872, in the western
     part of Sweden.
        Reared, educated and married in Sweden, NELS A. HOLMES left his
     native country in 1882, America being his objective point of desti-
     nation.  He spent a short time in the busy city of Chicago, from there
     going to Wisconsin.  Not being entirely pleased with his prospects in
     either place, he came to the Upper Peninsula, locating in the new town
     of Iron River.  Iron county was then a veritable wilderness, in which
     very few mines had been opened.  Soon taking up a homestead claim in
     Stambaugh township, three miles from Iron River, he built a log cabin
     in the woods, and there, in 1884, he was joined by his family.  He has
     been a resident of Iron county continuously ever since, living a part
     of the time in Iron River, at the present time, 1910, occupying his
     home farm.  He has three children, HERMAN, GUST A. and ANNIE ELIZA-
     BETH.
        Receiving his elementary education in Sweden, HERMAN HOLMES at-
     tended the Stambaugh schools after coming to Michigan for awhile.  He
     was reared to habits of industry and thrift, and when but a boy worked
     in the mines and assisted his father in clearing the land.  When ready
     for life to begin for himself, he embarked in the logging and lumber
     business, operating in Iron county and in adjacent territories, being
     uniformly successful in his ventures.  An active and worthy member of
     the Republican party, MR. HOLMES was elected sheriff of Iron county in
     1900, was re-elected in 1902, and in 1908 was again honored with an
     election to the same office.
        MR. HOLMES married in November, 1898, CHRISTINA SACKERSON, who was
     born in Sweden, and came with her parents to Michigan, where her
     father, a resident of Stambaugh township, is now engaged in farming.
     Mr. and Mrs. HOLMES have an adopted daughter, ESTHER HOLMES, nine
     years old, who has lived with them the past eight years, receiving
     from them loving care and gentle training.  Fraternally MR. HOLMES is
     a member of Crystal Falls Lodge, No. 385, F. & A. M.; of Crystal Falls
     Chapter, No. 129, R. A. M.; of Hugh McCurdy Commandery, No. 43, K. T.;
     of Ahmed Temple, Mystic Shrine, and of the Consistory, at Grand
     Rapids; of Crystal Falls Lodge, I. O. O. F.; of Iron River Lodge, K.
     of P.; and of Iron River Camp, M. W. A.

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