| Benjamin Holcomb | |
 Holcomb at the age of 110. | |
| Birth: | 3 July 1889 Kansas, USA |
| Death: | 2 December 2000 Oklahoma, USA |
| Age: | 111 years, 152 days |
| Country: |  USA
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| Validated | |
Benjamin Harrison Holcomb (3 July 1889 – 2 December 2000) was a validated American supercentenarian. He is the oldest validated man ever born in US state of Kansas, and the oldest validated man who ever died in US state of Oklahoma.
Biography[]
Benjamin Harrison Holcomb was born in Kansas, USA on 3 July 1889.
Holcomb lived most of his life in Oklahoma where he farmed every day until his retirement in 1996 aged 107. In 1998, aged 109, he became the oldest known man to stalk and shoot a deer. He spent the last years of his life in a nursing home being cared for by three of his five children, all in their eighties.
Holcomb was an avid supporter of outdoor activity, particularly field sports which he had enjoyed since he was a young boy. He put his longevity down to his ability to "weep freely", which he said stopped him ever getting stressed, and regular glasses of "good wine".
His daughter Leona Ford lived to be 105, daughter Lucile Bridwell lived to be 102, and son John Oliver Holcomb lived to be 90.
Holcomb died in Oklahoma, USA on 2 December 2000 at the age of 111 years, 152 days. At the time of his death, he was the third-oldest validated living man in the United States (behind John Painter and John McMorran) and the fifth-oldest validated living man in the world (behind Painter, Antonio Todde, Yukichi Chuganji, and McMorran).