Los Angeles-Sacramento-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Holt, D. G. 1861 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    D. G. HOLT, editor and owner of the Daily Outlook, Santa Monica, was born in
the city of Philadelphia, Pa., October 6th, 1861. He lived in the East until
about six years of age, when he went to make his home with an uncle in
Wisconsin. Two years later his father, Sidney A. Holt, his mother and two
younger brothers were lost at sea. Mr. Holt grew up in Wisconsin and was
educated in the public schools of that state. In 1873 he joined the "rush" to
Northwestern Minnesota and Dakota, and there followed newspaper work for several
years, latterly at Pine City, where he was connected with the Pine County
Pioneer. In the fall of 1886 he left Pine City and started for California,
making San Francisco his destination. He chose the Canadian Pacific railroad
route and, after spending a few months in Winnipeg, proceeded westward. The
winter was a severe one and he was snow-bound for a week at Medicine Hat, N. W.
T. While thus delayed he was engaged to take charge of the local paper, the
joint property of local merchants, which had suspended publication for about
three months. Mr. Holt put the paper on a good business footing and conducted
the same for a period of about two years. He then resumed his journey westward
to San Francisco, arriving there in the spring of 1889. In the spring of 1890 he
founded the River News at Rio Vista, Solano county, California, and conducted
the same for five years. In the spring of 1896 he came to Santa Monica and
assumed charge of the Santa Monica Outlook, then a weekly publication. He
transformed it into a daily in 1896, and has made it one of the most
influential news journals of Southern California.

    Mr. Holt married at Medicine Hat, Canada, Sept. 30, 1891, Miss Laura Preston
of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and they have one son, Sidney, born at Rio
Vista, Solano county, Cal., Sept. 18, 1892.

    Mr. Holt has been prominent in the political life of California and is a
loyal supporter of the republican party. For many years he held the position of
minute clerk of the California State Senate and was one of the most efficient
and popular attaches of that body. He has ever evinced a becoming interest in
local public affairs and for six years was a member of the executive committee
of the Republican County Central Committee. For many years he served the city of
Santa Monica as a trustee of the public library. He was elected a member of the
Board of School Trustees in 1897 and served until 1901. Upon the reincorporation
of the city under the Freeholders' Charter in 1907, he was elected a member of
the Board of Education and is now president of the board.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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