Clarke-Warren-Taliaferro County GaArchives Biographies.....Holden, H. M. 1866 - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

JUDGE H. M. HOLDEN

   Judge Horace Moore Holden, of Athens, Georgia, occupies a high place in the
ranks of Georgia attorneys and men of business, on account of his mental
achievements, his correct judgment, and his splendid character. He has one of
the largest law practices in the state, and owns a greater number of acres of
farm lands than any one else in Taliaferro County.

   Horace Moore Holden was born in Warren County, Georgia, March 5, 1866. His
father was William Franklin Holden, who was an eminent citizen of the state.
Judge Holden entered the University of Georgia in the fall of 1883 and graduated
in the class of 1885. He was admitted to the bar in Taliaferro County, February
22, 1886, and began the active practice of his profession in Crawfordville,
Georgia, April 12 of the same year.

   Judge Holden was the nominee of the Democratic party for the lower house of
the General Assembly in 1894, and in 1896 became a member of the State
Democratic campaign committee. In 1900 he was named a member of the Democratic
executive committee for the Tenth Congressional District and for many years was
chairman of the Democratic executive committee for his home county. In 1900 he
was elected Judge of the Northern Judicial Circuit, was re-elected in 1904
without opposition, and in 1907 was appointed by Governor Hoke Smith associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the state. He was subsequently elected without
opposition but resigned to resume the practice of law.

   Judge Holden was married June 1, 1893, to Miss Mary Corry, daughter of Judge
William Corry, of Greene County, Georgia, and a great-niece of Governor
Alexander Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy. They have five children,
two boys, Frank Alexander and Howard Lewis, and three girls, Mary Stephens (now
Mrs. L. M. Paul, Jr.), Queen Elizabeth, and Anna Frances.


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HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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