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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 at the celebration of the
th
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, No. 317, B. P. 0. of Elks, being

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