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Historical Clippings Book - Indians (HC-15-16) (191 pages)
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ELMER ROBINSON GRANEKOLM
Elmer Robinson Granholm was born March 1, 1890 in Grass Valley,
California. His mother, Jenny Robinson, was born in April, 1854,
probably the first white child borm in what is now the city of Grass
Valley. His father, Victor Granholm, was born in Finland. Ke was a
sailor until he came to Grass Valley in search of gold.
Elmer was the youngest of eight children, and as a child suffered from poor health and poverty. However, from his wanderings over
the hill sides of his native territory, and his love of Nature, he
developed a spirit of freedom and discovered treasures both material
and ethereal. From a boyhood collection of arrow-heads, pestles, and
other mementoes of the past grew an understanding and an appreciation
of the Indian whose life of freedom he envied. He also enjoyed sketcling and later developed this talent to produce oil paintings that are
works of art. :
Through a vadeville experience he became interested in hypnotism, and later ventured into the theatrical world, being scenic artist, stage hand, and actor al] at the same time as he toured with a
company through California, Arizona, and Old Mexico.
Later Mr. Granholm went to San Francisco to learn show card
writing and sign painting, secured a job in Vallejo, and later opened
a shop in Sacramento.
In 1929, he returned to his native city, where, a few years latev with the aid of an older brother, he built his present home at
403 East Main Street, which is really a private museum embodying his
talent, skill, and collections of the Maidu Indians, all of which he
gathered himself, He is a genial host to all who care to share his
leisure, and is an authority on California Indian lore especially of
the Nisenan.
Not to be omitted is the fact that Mr. Granholm is the author
of a book, unique in the fact that it is the work of one hand, the
printing, drawings, paintings, composition and music; although, his
wife, the former Gladys Davenport, whom he marvied in 1940, helped
with the arrangement for his songs.
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