Background
Holder, Charles Frederick was born on August 5, 1851 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Doctor Joseph Bassett and Emily A. (Gove) Holder.
Holder, Charles Frederick was born on August 5, 1851 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Doctor Joseph Bassett and Emily A. (Gove) Holder.
Educated United States Naval Academy, class of 1869, but resigned before graduation, Friends’ School, Providence, Allen’s School, West. Newton, Massachusetts, private tutors.
Assistant American Museum Natural History, New York, 1871-1875. President Pasadena Board Education. Trustee Throop College Technology and elected to chair of zoölogy on its opening.
Now honorary curator of its music
Author: Stories of Animal Life, 1900. The Adventures of Torqua, 1902.
The Holders of Holderness, or Pioneer Quakers, 1902. Big Game Fishes of the United States, 1903.
The Lower Animals, 1903.
Crabs and Insects, 1903. Fishes and Reptiles, 1903. The Birds; The Mammals.
Resources of Southern California.
Animals of Forest Reserve (joint author). The Boy Anglers, 1904.
Hand Book to Suomarine Gardens, 1904. Life and Sport in the Open—in Southern California, 1905.
Half Hours with the Lower Animals, 1905.
The Log of a Sea Angler, 1906. Big Game at Sea, 1907. Fish Stories (with David South. Jordan, 1908.
The Recreations of a Sportsman, 1909.
The Marooners, 1909; The Channel Islands, 1910. The Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast, 1910.
Distinguished American Scientists, 1911. Game Fishes of the United States, 1913.
Game Fishes of the World (London), 1913.
Marine Animals of the Pacific Coast, 1913. Quakers in England and America, 1913. The Ocean, 1914; Angling Adventures Around the World, 1914.
Motoring in California.
Fellow New York Academy Sciences. Gold medallist. Academie de Sport, France.
Married Sarah Elizabeth Ufford, November 8, 1879.