Araminta Holman

Araminta Holman
Holman, from a 1925 publication
Born(1870-05-16)May 16, 1870
Leavenworth County, Kansas, U.S.
DiedJuly 6, 1935(1935-07-06) (aged 65)
Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.
Other nameAraminta Paddleford
OccupationsHome economist, college professor
RelativesClementine Paddleford (stepdaughter)

Araminta Kinnear Holman Paddleford (May 16, 1870 – July 6, 1935)[1] was an American home economist and college professor. She was head of the department of applied art in the home economics program at Kansas State Agricultural College, where she taught from 1913 to 1930, and was elected president of the Kansas State Artists' Association in 1926.

Early life and education

Holman was born in Leavenworth County, Kansas,[2] the daughter of Edwin Johnston Holman and Alice Magdalen Kinnear Holman. She graduated from the New York School of Fine Arts[3] and from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1923.[4][5] She took a leave of absence for further studies in Paris in 1925.[3]

Career

Holman was a professor of applied art in the home economics department at Kansas State Agricultural College, beginning in 1913.[6] During her tenure as head of the Applied Arts department, she opened the Art Gallery at Kansas State.[7] She gave interior decorating,[8] housekeeping, and entertaining advice[9] in newspaper articles,[10][11] lectures,[12] and radio broadcasts.[13] She was elected president of the Kansas State Artists' Association in 1926.[14] She resigned her faculty employment when she married in 1930.[1]

Publications

  • Art Applied in Home Furnishing and Decorating (1923, booklet)[15]
  • "Art in Home Furnishing and Decorating" (1923)[16]
  • "Why Bother About Housecleaning?" (1927)[13]

Personal life

Holman married widower Solon Marion Paddleford in 1930. His daughter Clementine Paddleford was a noted food writer.[17] Holman died in 1935, at the age of 65, in Manhattan, Kansas.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Paddleford Rites Monday". The Mercury. 1935-07-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Leavenworth Girl at State College on Picture Ideas". The Leavenworth Times. 1916-10-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 "Studies at Paris Ateliers". The Lamp of Delta Zeta. 14 (4): 377, 392. May 1925.
  4. ↑ "Araminta Holman Gets Degree from Columbia; Head of Department of Applied Art Does Work in Summer". The Kansas Industrialist. 1923-01-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Alumni Activities". Teachers College Record. 26 (9): 803. May 1925.
  6. ↑ "Miss Holman Studies Abroad". Home Economics News. 1925-04-01. pp. 18, 19. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Items" The American Magazine of Art (June 1924): 328.
  8. ↑ "Color Shows Personality; Hints on Hoe Decorations by Miss Araminta Holman". The Chanute Daily Tribune. 1917-02-03. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Flowers Charm Dining Table; So says Miss Araminta Holman, Agricultural College Educator". Parsons Daily Eclipse. 1916-05-16. p. 7. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Care in Table Decoration" The Whitesville News (July 13, 1916): 7; via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  11. ↑ "Have Yellow Rooms and Get Rid of Your Grouch; Miss Holman Tells How Colors Affect Mental State". The Kansas Industrialist. 1916-05-20. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Modern Home Tour of County is Announced; Miss Araminta Holman Will be Here For It All of Next Week". The Leavenworth Times. 1921-03-30. p. 7. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. 1 2 Holman, Araminta. "Why Bother About Housecleaning?" Everyday Art 5(7)(April 1927): 10-11.
  14. ↑ "Araminta Holman Heads Kansas Artist Society". The Kansas Industrialist. 1926-02-10. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-07-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ Holman, Araminta. Art Applied in Home Furnishing and Decorating Kansas State Agricultural College Extension Service, Bulletin 43 (June 1923).
  16. ↑ Holman, Araminta (1923). "Art in Home Furnishing and Decorating". Transactions of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture: 54–66.
  17. ↑ "Clementine Paddleford Is Dead; Food Editor of Herald Tribune; Wrote Warmly and Joyously of Delights of the Palate --Had Wide Readership". The New York Times. 1967-11-14. p. 47. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-07-24.
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