Clarke-Taliaferro County GaArchives Biographies.....Holden, Frank A. 1894 - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

FRANK A. HOLDEN


   Frank Alexander Holden was born at Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia,
February 24, 1894. He received his early schooling at Stephens High School,
Crawfordville, Ga.

   Mr. Holden entered the Georgia Military Academy at College Park, Ga., in the
fall of 1907 and graduated there in the spring of 1910. He entered the
University of Georgia in the fall of 1910 and graduated with A.B. degree in 1914
and with B. L. degree in 1916. He was a member of the Phi Delta fraternity,
president of Phi Kappa Literary Society, editor-in-chief of the college weekly
(Red and Black), business manager of the 1916 Pandora and for four years played
third base on the varsity baseball team. In the fall of 1916  Mr. Holden began
the practice of law with his father at Athens, Georgia, under the firm name of
Horace and Frank Holden. He volunteered in the First Officers Training Camp at
Fort McPerson, Georgia, May 11, 1917, after the United States declared war
against Germany, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant and was assigned to the
82nd Division at Atlanta. He served overseas with the 328th Infantry (82nd
Division.)

   Mr. Holden has taken an active part in the American Legion since its
beginning and has held the office of Post Commander of the Allen R. Fleming,
Jr., Post at Athens, Ga., and National Executive Committeeman-elect from the
state of Georgia, which last position he resigned when elected to represent his
county in the legislature. In 1922 he was elected as one of Clarke County's two
representatives in the state legislature. 

   Mr. Holden is author of a book, "War Memories," which was published in the
fall of 1922. In this book he gives an account of his experiences in the World
War. It is intensely interesting and has received high praise from many sources.

   Mr. Holden is the son of Judge Horace M. Holden and Mary Corry Holden. His
father served as Judge of the Northern Circuit and Justice of the Supreme Court
of Georgia. His mother, before her marriage was Miss Mary Corry, great-niece of
Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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