Alfred Rosenholz

I was researching an individual and I came upon this wanted poster and something pulled at me to find out more.

This is the story of Alfred Rosenholz

He was born the 13 Feb 1867 in Skallmeja, Skaraborg, Sweden. He was married first to Marnie (Mary C) Macker Some family trees list her as Mary Wacker married 23 Dec 1894 in Alameda County, CA. As far as I could find out they had two children:


1) Renald Rosenholz 1895-1907
2) Anna Pearl Rosenholz 1896-1968

I am not sure what happened to this marriage, I found some newspaper clipping and a wanted poster. In examining these I have come to a conclusion that his wife was a scornful women. Although Mr Rosenholz is a very colorful man.

I did not find out if he had a degree of some kind for the title Dr. I also did not find any proof of the abortion statement on this poster either. 

On 17 Sep 1910 he marries his 2nd wife, thinking he is divorced from the first wife. The first wife Mary must of found out about the second wife and got jealous or mad, because she is the one who went to the authorities to report him. In this poster it says hi wife is about 6 months pregnant. Come to your own conclusions, but I believe she miss-carried or the baby died because the only oldest child we know about is Renald who was born in 1913.  I did however find a newspaper clipping for the loss of a son  from his first wife dated 1907 which would be their son Renald born in 1895.

Below is a newspaper article I found on the death of his son.

Below are a few clipping I found on the Bigamy, I only picked several because there are numerous clipping about this case.

Here's a some of the case I found in text.

MARY C. ROSENHOLZ, Respondent, v. ALFRED ROSENHOLZ, Appellant.

Appeal-Eight To Stay Of Execution-Petition Tor Alternative Writ Of Restitution-Controverted Facts-Continuance For Hearing.-Where an appellant, for the purpose of preserving his statutory right to a stay of execution pending an appeal to this court, petitions this court for a writ of restitution of the possession of the real property involved in the appeal, which is alleged to have been delivered by the court, after an application to fix the staybond, but the facts are controverted, as to whether the writ of possession was before or after the application for the stay-bond, the cause will be continued for further hearing and evidence upon notice to the parties interested.

PETITION for Writ of Restitution of real property by Appellant, pending appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco.

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

R. M. Royce, and Austin Lewis, for Petitioner.

Leo Kaufmann, for Respondent.

THE COURT.-This is a petition for a writ of restitution, restoring to petitioner the possession of certain real property, and preserving his statutory right to a stay of execution pending an appeal from the judgment of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco. It is made to appear by the petition that an interlocutory judgment and decree awarding to plaintiff the property in question was duly made and given; that he appealed from this judgment and repeatedly sought the court to fix the amount of a bond to stay the execution of the judgment pending the appeal; that the trial court failed to do this, while maintaining the status quo by its order staying execution of the judgment. The last application to the court to fix the stay-bond upon appeal, it is alleged, was made upon January 5th. Upon January 6th, in the absence of defendant's attorney, upon application of plaintiff's attorney, the order staying execution was vacated, and a writ of possession ordered issued by the judge. Upon acquiring knowledge of this, and before the execution of the writ by the sheriff, defendant's attorney secured another stay of execution for two days, and likewise an order fixing the amount of the stay-bond; that this order was served upon the sheriff; that within the time limited by it a good and sufficient stay-bend was tiled; that, notwithstanding this, petitioner was ousted of possession by unauthorized persons not connected with the office of the sheriff of the city and county; that petitioner's attorney then made application to the court for a writ of restitution which the court refused to consider, "handing the same to the clerk and telling him to tell defendant's counsel to take it away." An application for relief was then made to this court. The answer to the petition joins issue upon certain of these averments. Thus, it is denied that petitioner ever made application to the court to fix the amount of the staybond until after the court had issued its writ of possession to plaintiff under the judgment and this writ had been duly executed by the sheriff. It is further denied that the sheriff did not execute the writ, and that the writ was executed by unauthorized persons. Manifestly the rights of petitioner, if he had made timely application for a stay-bond pending his appeal, would be very different from the rights that would be his if he had made such application only after execution of a judgment. The condition of the record making it impossible for this court to determine this and other controverted questions of fact herein adverted to, it is ordered that the order of submission in the above entitled matter heretofore made be vacated, that the cause be set down upon the calendar of the next law and motion day, October 2, 1911, for further hearing and evidence upon these matters, and that timely notice be given of this order to the parties interested.

[L. A. No. 2594. Department Two.-September 14, 1911.]

This man becomes even more interesting and I am not going to post everything because it would take you months to read. I found many patents he had with drawings. This to me alone explains the lunatic theory as just that, this man was very intelligent.  

There are many, many patents for him and you can google them and find them on Ancestry.com

So let's talk about his 2nd wife the very lovely Olga Edna Hoagland

Birth 11 Mar 1890  Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota

Death 24 Aug 1974  Paradise, Butte, California

Together they had the following children

Renald Rosewood 1913-1998

Lenore Rosewood 1918-1922

Dagmar Rosewood 1925-2007

Lester Rosewood 1929-1965

Lenore, Olga, Renald Rosenholz

                                                                     Alfred Rosenholz 

I found in some instants his last name has been changed by some family members as Rosewood. In all the documents I found I never found that name so I am very puzzled as to why some people tracing their genealogy would add that to him as a surname. With the patents alone all in Rosenholz he deserves to keep his namesake.

I am amazed how a wanted poster led me to this wonderful story. I was moved by his story and I am sure that scornful x-wife may have ended up in the lunatic ward herself.

 Mary Wacker

Born 1872 in California died 1947 California As far as I could tell she never re-married

Alfred himself died 14 Mar 1941 in  San Francisco, California

Until next time