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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Tom W. Holman

1924-1925

By EDWARD F. TY Assistant Grand Secretary

Past Grand Master Tom Wooster Holman was the youngest man
in the history of the Grand Lodge of Washington to be honored
with the leadership of the Craft. He was born at Rushville,
Indiana, on the 7th day of Ma y, 1885, but spent the larger part of
his boyhood days in Seattle. After attending the grade and high
schools of Seattle, he removed to Chicago where he was
graduated from the Hyde Park High School and the Soper School
of Oratory, and received the degree of L. L. B. in the College
of Law at the University of Illinois in the year 1906.

Bro. Holman married Grace Ewing, also a graduate of the
University of Illinois, and is the father of two daughters, Grace Elizabeth, aged 10 years , and
Harriet Alma, aged 8 years. He was admitted to practice of law in Illinois in 1906, practiced in
Chicago until the fall of 1908, when he removed to Seattle and was admitted to practice in
Washington in October of that year. He remained in Seattle until July, 1910, when he removed to
Jefferson County, where in 1916 he was elect ed prosecuting attorney of that county for two terms,
serving until January, 1921. From January until March, 1921, he acted as special prosecutor for
Whatcom County, Washington, in charge of that county's grand jury proceedings. In April,
1922, he was appointed assistant attorney general of the state, in which capacity he is still serving,
having closed his practice at Port Towns- end and removed to Olympia, where he now resides
with his family.

On the 8th of April, 1908, Tom petitioned Blaney Lodge, No. 271, A. F. & A. Masons, of
Chicago, Illinois, for the degrees of Masonry. He was elected to receive the degrees on the 13th
day of May of the same year, initiated the same day, passed on the 20 of that month, and raised
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at the celebration of the Lodge's Fiftieth Anniversary, June 3, 1908. He affiliated with Jefferson
Lodge, No. 107, F . & A. Masons, at Hadlock, Washington, May 20th, 1911, and served it in the
chairs as Junior Warden, Senior Warden and Worshipful Master; his term as Master ending in
December, 1915. In 1919, Grand Master Thomas E. Skaggs appointed him Grand Orator, and his
oration on "First Things First" at the Annual Communication in 1920, following the warm
friendships established during his previous five years' of attendance at the Grand Lodge sessions,
won for him the honor of being elected Junior Grand Warden. He was advanced a station each
succeeding year, and elected and installed Grand Master in June, 1923.

Brother Holman is also a member of Port Townsend Chapter, No. 14, Royal Arch Masons;
Townsend Council, No. 9, Royal and Select Masters; Townsend Commandery, No. 9, Knights
Templar; and Nile Temple, A. A. 0 . N. M. S. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
and the Phi Delta Phi (Honorary Law) Fraternities, University of Illinois; Port Townsend Lodge,