New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume III, by William Richard Cutter, 1915

The Holden Family

(IV) Daniel Holden, son of James Holden (q. v.), was born at Cambridge, October 7, 1713. He removed from Worcester to Rutland district, and died intestate at Barre in 1755. He was living in Leicester in 1739, and again in 1755. He married Rachel (???). Child, born at Leicester:
Jeduthan, March 4, 1738-39. Born at Worcester; Rachel, January 26, 1740-41; Josiah, January 23, 1743; Mary, March 31, 1747; Daniel; Martha; Katherine; Nathan, mentioned below. The children are legatees under the will of James Holden, their grandfather, mentioned above.

(V) Nathan, son of Daniel Holden, was born in 1753, probably at Barre. He and his cousin of the same name, Nathan Holden, son of Nathan Holden, were both in the revolution, and it is difficuit to distinguish their records. Nathan Jr. was in the Continental army in 1780, aged twenty-two. That identifies him as the Nathan born 1758. He was five feet six inches tall, and of light complexion. Nathan, of Shrewsbury, was in Captain Job Cushing's company, Colonel Artemas Ward's regiment, April 19, 1775, and later in the year in Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment. This record doubtless belongs to Nathan, of Worcester and Shrewsbury; his brother Daniel settled in Shrewsbury. (See other records in vol. viii, p. 109, "Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution"). Nathan Holden, son of Nathan, went to Petersharn, and had Abigail, Fanny. Julia Whitney, Lucinda, Lucretia, Nathan in 1794, and Sophronia, by wife Abigail (Whitney), whom he married at Barre, November 28, 1782, and they also had at Barre, Simeon, June 22, 1784. Nathan, son of Daniel. died at Hubbardston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1806, aged fifty-three years. He settled in Hubbardston, where his first wife, Experience, died October 1, 1790. He married (second) at Hubbardston, June 2, 1791. Prudence Alden. Children, born at Hubbardston, by first wife: Son, March 20, 1780; Fanny, May 7, 1781; Lewis. March 29, 1783, died December 12, 1849; Nathan, mentioned below; Sally, November 11, 1788, died December 4, 1788. Children by second wife, born at Hubbardston: Amasa, January 28, 1792; Ethan, February 7, 1794; Jonah, May 19. 1796; Melissa, September 8, 1798, died
September 14, 1800: Caty. November 14, 1800; Loretta, March 31, 1803; Artemas Goodnow, March 22, 1805; daughter, born December 11, 1809, died October 11, 1810; son, born August 23, 1812.

(VI) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (I) Holden, was born at Hubbardston. June 1, 1786, and died at Barre. March 18, 1838. aged fifty-one. He married, at Hubbardston (intention dated April 5, 1809) Peady Clark. In the birth records his wife is Experience. He settled at Barre, Massachusetts. His wife Experience had two brothers, Steadman and Timothy. Her mother's name was Jemima Nightingale. Children, recorded as born in Barre: Nathan, August 28, 1812; Lewis, mentioned below; Hiram, May 12, 1820; Parker, July 31, 1822; Harriet, May 18, 1825; Celia, April 9, 1828; Mary, August 15, 1831.

(VII) Lewis, son of Nathan (2) Holden, was born at Barre, Massachusetts, June 15, 1814, and died at Charlton, Massachusetts, September 7, 1863. He settled in Charlton, and owned a large farm in that town. He was a Whig in politics, and a Methodist in religion. He married, May 9, 1837, Eliza Ann Howlett, who was born July 2, 1817, in Woodstock, Connecticut, and died December 5, 1908, in Bennington, Vermont. Children, all except the eldest born at Charlton: 1. Charles Lewis, born at Hubbardston, February 28, 1838, died at Palmer, Massachusetts, October 19, 1908; a merchant; married Ellen Rodman, of Southbridge, Massachusetts. 2. Julia, February 16, 1840; died at West Warren, Massachusetts, May 10, 1882; married George Rockwell, of Bloomfield, Connecticut, a merchant and real estate agent. who died at Providence, Rhode Island, in August, 1910. 3. Henry Parker, March 5, 1842, died at Palmer, April 12, 1900; married Mary J. Holmes, of Southbridge, Massachusetts, now living in Palmer; he was a merchant. 4. John Steadman, mentioned below. 5. Gilbert, born October 15, 1847, died in infancy. 6. Daniel Freeman, July 2, 1850, resides in Palmer, a real estate agent, married Mary Loomis, of Palmer. 7. Elizabeth, June 20, 1857; married Frank B. Pope, who was born at Woodbury, Connecticut, September 29, 1856, a salesman and manufacturer,
residing in Bennington, Vermont. 8. Anna Pede, born February 8, 1860; married E. E. Hart, a coal dealer in Bennington, a native of Washington, Massachusetts.

(VIII) John Steadman, son of Lewis Holden, was born at Charlton, Massachusetts, May 9, 1845, and died at Pasadena, California, March 22, 1907. He attended the public schools of Charlton and Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He began his business career as a merchant in Palmer. He sold his business a few years later and engaged in refining oil in what was known as the Crystal Refinery, on the Miller farm. This refinery had a memorable contest with the Standard Oil Company. Subsequently he became a manufacturer of woolen goods at Palmer. After he retired from business he made his home at Bennington, Vermont, in 1889, and he took an active part in public affairs. In politics he was a Republican. He was trustee of the incorporated village of Bennington, and afterward its president. While on a trip to Old Mexico and California he died at Pasadena, California. He was a faithful member of the Congregational church, and for many years a deacon. He was a member of Mount Anthony Lodge, No. 13, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Bennington Club. He married Jennie E. Goodell, who was born at Hartford, Connecticut, and is now living in Bennington, daughter of Cyrus and Almira (Burr) Goodell; her mother was a sister of A. E. Burr, of the Hartford Times; her father was an insurance agent. Children of John Steadman Holden: 1. Arthur J., born at Hartford, Connecticut, December, 1870; president of Bennington County National Bank; married Frances Coleman, of San Francisco. 2. Alice, born at Palmer, February 6, 1872; married George H. Bickford, of Barton, Vermont, manager
of Woodbury Granite Company; reside at Hardwick, Vermont. 3. Lulu, at Palmer, October 24, 1873; married Norman L. Bassett, an attorney-at-law, at Augusta, Maine. 4. Florence, at Palmer, May 11, 1876; married Theodore L. Thomas, of Bennington, sales manager for Holden-Leonard Company. 5. Clarence Lewis, mentioned below.

(IX) Clarence Lewis, son of John Steadman Holden, was born at Palmer, Massachusetts, June 27, 1884. When he was five years old his parents removed to Bennington, where he received his early education in the public schools. He was graduated in 1904 from the Lawrenceville Preparatory School. For two years he was a student in Princeton University, leaving college in 1906 at the end of his sophomore year to engage in the woolen business at Bennington. He was one of the principal owners of the Holden-Leonard Company, and he remained with the company as assistant treasurer until January, 1913. Since that time he has been president of the Bennington Scale Company. In politics Mr. Holden is a Republican, and he has served one year as trustee of the village of Bennington. In religion he is a Congregationalist, a member of the church at Bennington. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 567, of Bennington; of Mount Anthony Lodge, No. 13, Free Masons; Temple Chapter, No. 8, Royal Arch Masons: Taft Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 8; and Cairo Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Rutland. He is active in the Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of the Bennington Club. He is a director of the Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad Company.

He married, June 17, 1908, at Deep River, Connecticut, Florence Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Richard P. and Julia (Selden) Spencer, Her father was a banker, and is now deceased. Mrs. Holden is an active member of the Congregational church, and of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Children: John Spencer, born February 22, 1911; Juliana Selden, born April 13, 1913.

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