Henry Holt

Background

Holt, Henry was born on January 3, 1840 in Baltimore. Son of Dan and Ann Eve (Siebold) Holt.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1862. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1864. Doctor of Laws, University of Vermont, 1901.

Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins University, 1914.

Career

He joined the publishing company of Frederick Leypoldt in 1866, which became Henry Holt and Company in 1873. Holt"s company specialized in publishing and did not sell books at retail. He remained active in the company until about 1916.

Seven years after his wife"s death, he wed Florence Taber.

In 1905, Henry Holt"s daughters Edith and Winifred co-founded the New York Association for the Blind, now known as Lighthouse International. Edith continued to be active with this charity, which provided the opportunity for blind people to do useful work.

In response to critics she wrote "Some went as far as to say that it would be cruel to add to the burden of infirmity the burden of labor, as if to be without work were not the heaviest burden mortal could be called upon to endure. In 1914 Holt founded The Unpopular Review, later renamed The Unpartizan Review, which ceased publication in 1920.

Holt also authored novels.

Both and were first published anonymously and then reissued under his name. The New York Times described them: "In Sturmsee the economic problems of the present day are treated in an interesting fashion. The theory of "social service" is set forth in lieutenant, and there are many satirical touches.

The scope of the other novel, Calmire, is somewhat broader." Holt served on the Simplified Spelling Board, and was its President and the man to whom the Board"s founding benefactor Andrew Carnegie addressed his 25 February 1915 letter expressing dissatisfaction with the progress of the board, saying of the board that "a more useless body of men never came into association, judging from the effects they produce." Holt published his autobiography, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor in 1923.

He died at his home in New York City on February 13, 1926 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

Achievements

• Henry Holt has been listed as a notable author, publisher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Sturmsee, Man and Man

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Talks on civics

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Calmire: Man and Nature - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Calmire: Man and Nature (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from Calmire: Man and Nature "This is outrageous...)

  • On the Civic Relations

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Calmire: Man and Nature

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Sturmsee: Man And Man (1906)

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Sturmsee, man and man

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • Sturmsee - Man and Man

    (philosophy of evolution, duty of man, law of evolution,)

  • Sturmsee: Man And Man

    ( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)

  • Garrulities of an octogenarian editor,: With other essays somewhat biographical and autobiographical,

    (Autobiography. Blue cloth covers rubbed, corners and spin...)

  • Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor: Henry Holt

    (1923. With other essays somewhat biographical and autobio...)

  • Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor with Other Essays Somewhat Biographi
  • Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor With Other Essays Somewhat Biographical and Autobiographical

Membership

Member first Executive Committee of Simplified Spelling Board. Member Harvard Overseers Visiting Committee on philosophy and psychology, since 1915. Has lectured at Yale, Columbia, and at University of Vermont.

• Clubs: Authors, Century, University, City, Yale.

Interests

• Music, landscape gardening.

Connections

Married Mary Florence West, June 11, 1863 (died 1879). Married second, Florence Taber, December 2, 1886.

Father:

Dan Holt

Mother:

Ann Eve (Siebold) Holt

Spouse:

Florence Taber

Spouse:

Mary Florence West