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Rh Mr. Riesland is an active republican, and has been identified with many public movements for municipal progress and upbuilding. He is president of the Seventh Ward League, of which he was one of the founders and was the first secretary of the United East Side Improvement Club. He is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, and belongs to the county and state bar associations. Mr. Riesland has been recently appointed as member of the executive committee of the republican state central committee, and is very actively interested in politics. He is one of the organizers and was first president of the Forty-fifth Republican Club. The interests which figure most largely in his life are those which promote the development of the individual and the city, and are therefore equally helpful and worthy.

Mr. Riesland was married April 28, 1903, to Miss Emily Queen Kelty, of Portland, a niece of the late Harvey Scott, of whom a record appears on another page in this volume, and with their little son Carl, six years of age, they reside at No. 1198 Harold avenue.

Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, attorney and counselor at law, who has been identified helpfully with the growth and development of Portland, was born in Pacific county, Washington, at a time when that section was still a part of the state of Oregon, his natal day having been August 29, 1852. His parents were James Duval Holman, a native of Woodford county, Kentucky, and Rachael Hixson (Summers) Holman, who was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, and was a daughter of Thomas Summers. The ancestry of the family is traced back to Thomas Holman, who came from England and settled in South Carolina in 1730. His grandfather, John Holman, who was born in Kentucky in 1787, was a veteran of the war of 181 2 and came to Oregon with the first home-building emigration in 1843. The grandmother, Elizabeth Duval, was a native of North Carolina. James Duval Holman, the father, was an enterprising Oregon pioneer of 1846, who became one of the founders of Pacific City. He did much toward the upbuilding of Oregon in the early days. In 1857 he came to Portland and continued his residence here throughout the remainder of his life. The J. D. Holman school of this city was named in his honor as a public recognition of the important services which he rendered in the improvement and development of this city. He was one of the early school directors of school district No. i and was very active in the cause of education. He died in December, 1882, in his sixty-ninth year, while his wife, long surviving him, passed away August 3, 1900, at the age of seventy-seven years. In the family were eight children and those surviving who reside in Portland are Frederick V., George F., Frances A. and Kate S.

Frederick Van Voorhies Holman was educated in public and private schools of Portland, at one time attending the Portland Academy and Female Seminary, from which he was graduated in July, 1868. On the 9th of June, 1875, he completed a course in the University of California, at which time the Bachelor of Philosophy degree was conferred upon him. He then took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Oregon on the 8th of January, 1879. He has ever since been engaged in active practice here and has given his attention principally to corporation, real property and probate law, in which connection he has secured a large clientage that indicates his prominence in those branches of the profession. Moreover, he is a director of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and other corporations. He is general counsel and director for the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and local general counsel for H. M. Byllesby & Company for the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and a director of the Oregon Power Company.