Holman began in 1864 as a small family business in Portland, Oregon. On the docks of the Willamette River, with the aid of two draft horses and a cart, two teenaged brothers perceived the opportunities arriving with every steamship and launched a modest transfer business. Edward and Jack Holman had come West the year before, looking to escape the sweatshops of New York. The young boys had spent the early Civil War years packing hardtack and munitions for General Grant. Sitting atop their two-wh