Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

History of Central Oregon, published 1906, Biographical Sketches of Lake County by James Small, page 903

Holder, William

William Holder is now one of the thrifty tillers of the soil and lives in the vicinity of Paisley, Crook county, Oregon his home being eleven miles south of that place. He was born on August 11, 1854, near Cornwalll, Benton county, Oregon. His father, Adam Holder, was born in Pennsylvania, crossing the plains form Iowa in 1853 to Benton county and in 1859 settled in Corvallis, where he followed blacksmithing. In 1885, he came across the mountains to Sherman county where he is now living, aged eighty-two years. He married Julia A. Kompp, who was born on the Rine, in Germany. she came to the United States when a girl and lived in Iowa where she was married. She is now seventy-two yeas of age and is still living. Her father, August Kompp, was an officer in the German army. Our subject has one brother, Lewis D. of Sherman county, Oregon and one sister Mrs. Pinkie Johnson, deceased. William was educated in the public schools and the agricultural collage at Corvallis. In 1881 he went to Sherman county, his name appearing on the Republican ticket and he was the first Republican sheriff of the county. So well did he fill the office that two years later he was chosen again to the same position and in 1898, the people determined to give him a third term and accordingly he was overwhelmingly elected. This gives him six years of continuous service in that important office and he left a record of uprightess and faithfulness seldom exceeded. In 1900 Mr. Holder went to Shaniko, where he operated a newspaper for a while , then he bought the Prineville Review and conducted it for a time. After that , we find him in charge of the Paisley Post and in the fall of 1903, he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of good land where he now resides, one-third of which is in cultivation and it is a splendid estate. It possesses some natural meadow, has an abundance of water for irrigation , has all the improvements and conveniences, as house, barn, orchard and so fourth.

Mr. Holder has been twice married and has six children: Nellie, the wife of Erwin Pike of Sherman county; Minnie, wife of Prof. Frank Henry of Moro, Oregon; Carl; Neva; Eulalia; and Thomas.

Mr. Holder is past grand of the I.O.O.F. and present noble grand. He is a member of the encampment, and of the W.W. the Maccabees and the K.P. He has been representative to the grand lodges of the I.O.O.F. and Maccabees. He is a man of energy and intelligence, well informed on the questions of the day and a progressive, public minded citizen.
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William's parents were Adam Holder and Julia Ann Kompp.

Descendants of Adam Holder

1 Adam Holder b: 22 Feb 1826 in Somerset Co, PA d: 03 Aug 1905 in Grass Valley, Sherman Co, OR
.. +Julia Ann Kompp b: 26 Jun 1833 in Darmstadt, Germany m: 15 Jan 1852 in Jefferson County, Iowa d: 14 Oct 1908 in Grass Valley, Sherman Co, OR
......... 2 William Henry Holder b: 11 Aug 1854 in Benton County, Oregon d: 31 Dec 1910 in Oregon
............. +Mary Jane Gideon b: 03 May 1866 in St. Joseph, Missouri d: 05 Jul 1935 in Paisley, Oregon
.................... 3 Carl Holder b: 19 Mar 1890 d: 1960
.................... 3 Neva Holder b: 03 May 1893
........................ +Henry McCall
.................... 3 Eulalia Holder b: 03 Jan 1898 d: 1918
.................... 3 Henry Holder b: 1901 d: 1903
.................... 3 Thomas Day Holder b: 27 Jul 1903
........................ +Maurine Louise Veith
......... 2 Julia E. Holder b: 1857 in Benton County, Oregon d: Bef. 1860 in Benton County, Oregon
......... 2 Lewis David Holder b: 1864 in Benton County, Oregon d: 14 Feb 1918 in Union County, Oregon
......... 2 Pinkie Daisy Holder b: 1867 in Benton County, Oregon d: 07 Oct 1887 in Benton County, Oregon
............. +John Vinton Johnson b: 07 Feb 1864 in Benton County, Oregon m: 03 Aug 1884 in Benton County, Oregon d: 31 Aug 1892 in Benton County, Oregon
.................... 3 Cynthia Anna Johnson b: in Benton County, Oregon
........................ +William W. Musgrave m: 07 Jun 1909 in Benton County, Oregon d: 06 Feb 1960 in Multnomah County, Oregon
............................... 4 Cynthia Ella Musgrave b: Jun 1910 in Benton County, Oregon
............................... 4 Thelma Ella Musgrave b: Dec 1911 in Benton County, Oregon