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Ninety-Six Years Young, December, 1939
F. J. Holman
Ninety-Six Years Young
"I have wanted to be in the army since the days of the Crimean War." How many men on the National System could make that statement? Frederick J. Holman, of Stratford, Ont., who celebrated his 96th birthday recently, is one of the few men in Stratford who can truthfully make an assertion of that kind. Mr. Holman said he was but a small boy at the time of the Crimean War but remembered that he had wanted to get into it. If he were joining the army today he said he would try to be with the engineers.
Probably the oldest man in Stratford, and certainly the oldest C.N.R. pensioner in the city, Mr. Holman is exceedingly active and is in full possession of his faculties. "I carry glasses around with me but I don't use them often," he said. He put in 41 years in the service of the railroad, starting in the engineering department of the G.T.R. and working up until he was virtually in charge of the department here. His son, Fred W. Holman, is also a C.N.R. pensioner. Mr. Holman is fond of good music and likes baseball and hockey.
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