Windham

HOLDEN, Lyman E.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 223

Lyman E. HOLDEN, lumber dealer and manufacturer, Brattleboro [Windham County, 
Vermont], was born 02 May 1860 at Jamaica [Windham County, Vermont], son of 
Justus Culwell and Philena Satira (RICE) HOLDEN. Educated at the village 
schools. From 1878 to 1881 he was in the lumber and grain business, and was 
engaged in farming from 1881 to 1884. In 1884 he lost everything to fire, 
but started in the lumber business at Wardsboro [Windham County] the same 
year, entirely on borrowed capital. In 1891 he formed a partnership with 
Judge J. L. MARTIN of Brattleboro, and has since been actively engaged in the 
lumber business in Brattleboro, the firm owning and leasing the factories of 
the Hooker, Corser & Mitchell Company and C. H. Eddy Bottling Works, and 
handling large contracts of timber land in southern Vermont. Republican. 
Congregationalist. Member of Brattleboro Lodge No. 102, Free & Accepted 
Masons; Fort Dummer Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; Quonektacat Tribe No. 
1, Independent Order of Red Men; and the Vermont Wheel Club. In 1881 he 
[Lyman E. HOLDEN] married [Miss?] Ella M. KIDDER of Wardsboro [Windham 
County, Vermont], who died in 1891; they had two children: Alice Ella and 
Henry Lyman. In 1893 Mr. HOLDEN married Grace Emma HILDRETH of Brattleboro 
[Windham County, Vermont]; they have one daughter, Gladys Evelyn.

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