Holt, Frederick Holford (1867-1929)

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Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916)

Peace Expedition Committee of Administration

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Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, May 1916

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, May 11, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Henry Ford, August 8, 1916

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Birth Date

1867-01-18

Death Date

1929

Birthplace

Manchester, England

Biographical Text

Frederick Holford Holt was a businessman and manufacturer. Born and educated in Manchester, England, he arrived in Detroit in 1884, finding work as a messenger boy for the Michigan Savings Bank. By 1901 he had become treasurer and manager of the F. A. Goodrich Iron and Steel Company and by 1911, he was a manager with the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburgh. In 1915, Holt became president and treasurer of the Williams Bros. Co., a Michigan-based pure-food manufacturer, along with other positions. Holt and his wife signed on to join the Peace Ship delegation and served as Henry Ford's business administrator for the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation from May 1916 until it ceased in February 1917.

Holt married Lilian Silk in 1890. The couple had a daughter, Dorothy. Holt died in 1929.

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1915 photograph from U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925

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Sciancalepore, Victoria

Skerrett, Ellen

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1916

Bibliography and Links

"F. H. Holt Dies In Birmingham," Detroit Free Press, January 5, 1929, p. 3.

"Says End of War is Still Distant," Detroit Free Press, September 22, 1916, p. 19.

Finding aid, Frederick and Lillian Holt Peace Expedition Papers (1915-1916), Special Collections at the University of Michigan Library.

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“Holt, Frederick Holford (1867-1929),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/8384.