Frederick Van Voorhies Holman

Frederick Van Voorhies Holman (August 29, 1852 – July 6, 1927) was a prominent lawyer and civic leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Legal counsel for the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company and other businesses, he was active in Democratic Party politics and in civic organizations.

[1] One of eight children, Frederick Van Voorhies Holman was born in Pacific County, Washington, in what was then part of the Oregon Territory.

[2] (McLoughlin, chief factor of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company during the second quarter of the 19th century has sometimes been referred to as "The Father of Oregon").

[5] Lone Fir is one of several pioneer cemeteries managed by Metro, the regional government of the Oregon part of the Portland metropolitan area.

[6] The 1892 Frederick V. Holman House in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood was demolished in early October 2016.

The Frederick V. Holman House in Portland
Holman grave at Lone Fir Cemetery