WILL H. HOLFINGER, who has been in the railway mail service for the past five years and now is connected with the Panhandle Railroad branch between Indianapolis and Pittsburg, was born on a farm near Covington, Ohio, July 15, 1877, and is a son of George and Christina (Flammer) Holfinger. George Holfinger was born in Germany and came to America with his father, Barnhart, when five years old. He married Christina Flammer, who was also born in Germany, and they became farming people in Miami County.

Will H. Holfinger grew up on the home farm and attended the country schools, graduating from the Bradford High School in 1896. The following four years were spent teaching in the country schools of Newberry and Newton Townships. In 1901 he completed the scientific course in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio. He then became principal of the Bradford High School, a position he filled for two years prior to successfully taking the civil service examinations. The railway mail service entails many hardships and the position of a mail clerk is an exacting one and can only be efficiently filled by a man of trained faculties and comprehensive education.

In 1905 Mr. Holfinger was married to Miss Alma Catherine Roeth, a daughter of Carl and Catherine (Wagner) Roeth, and they have two children, Carroll DeWitt and Kathryn Christina. Mr. Holfinger and wife are members of the Lutheran Church. The family home is a fine brick residence which Mr. Holfinger erected at Covington in 1907.