Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. 
William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

J.F. HOLTMANN, farmer; P.O. Meredosia, Morgan County. The subject 
of this sketch was born in Hanover, Germany. Nov. 14, 1841. At the 
age of twenty, he began learning he carpenter's trade, working at 
it three years. In the spring of 1864 he was married to Miss 
Johanna Steinsbimkt, of Hanover, Germany; born in 1844, died in 
this county in 1866. Our subject emigrated to the United States in 
company with his father's family in 1866; landed at New York city; 
thence by rail to Naples, Ill.; thence to Indian Creek Precinct, 
this county, and in 1870 bought the farm on which they are now 
living, consisting of 197 acres, of which 125 are under 
cultivation. In the fall of 1881, our subject married Miss 
Henrietta E. Sollman, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1862, 
and came to the United States with her parents in the fall of 
1881. Mr. Holtmann is the second of a family of six children, all 
of whom, except the oldest, reside in Illinois. He has one child, 
by his first marriage, viz.: Julia H., born in Germany, in August, 
1866. John Henry Holtmann, our subject's father, is a native of 
Hanover; born in 1815. At the age of twenty he entered the regular 
army, and served twenty years. His wife, also a native of Hanover, 
was born in 1813. Both are living with our subject. Our subject 
and his father are both Republicans.

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