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John J. Holst

HOLST, LARSON, BRONES

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/7/2010 at 05:33:40

JOHN J. HOLST

John J. Holst, a resident farmer of Mount Valley township, Winnebago county, has his home on section 34, where he owns and cultivates eighty acres of rich and productive land. He was born in Sweden on the 10th of August, 1871, and is a son of Jens O. and Sophia (Larson) Holst, both of whom spent their entire lives in Sweden. It was in the year 1893 that John J. Holst came to the new world. He had spent the period of his minority in his native land and had acquired his education in its public schools. He settled in Winnebago county, Iowa, where he went to work as a farm hand, and he continued to work for wages for eleven years, but desirous of engaging in business on his own account, he rented land in 1904 and began fanning for himself. He carefully saved his earnings through the succeeding period of eight years and in 1912 he purchased his present farm of eighty acres in Mount Valley township. For five years he has resided upon this place and his labors are manifest in the well-kept appearance of his farm with its carefully tilled fields, its substantial buildings and other improvements. He is also a stockholder in the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company of Forest City and a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator of Forest City, and he is interested in all those projects and measures which are looking to the improvement of conditions for the fanner or which promote agricultural progress as exemplified in the raising of crops.

In 1904 Mr. Holst was married to Miss Mary Brones, a daughter of Peter N. Brones, mentioned elsewhere in this work. They have four children, Phyllis S. R., James P., Mable I. and Alvin C. The parents are members of the Norwegian Methodist Episcopal church and guide their lives according to its teachings. Their influence is always on the side of right and progress, reform and improvement, and their genuine personal worth is indicated in the large number of their friends.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 309.


 

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