Essex County NJ Archives Obituaries.....HOLDEN, Edgar July 18, 1909
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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 1, New Series, 1916, Pages 106-107.

  DR. EDGAR HOLDEN, a prominent physician of Newark, N. J., died on July 18, 
1909, at Chatham.  He was born at Hingham, Mass., on November 3, 1838.  His 
father, Asa Holden, was a manufacturer of that place, and his grandfather was 
John Holden, an officer in the Continental army, promoted for bravery at the 
battle of Bunker Hill and one of the founders of the American Society of 
Cincinnati.  Dr. Holden graduated from Princeton College in 1859, and from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1861.  He enlisted in the 
latter part of 1861 and served in the United States navy throughout the civil 
war.  He was an authority on diseases of the larynx and the inventor of 
several surgical instruments in general use.  Dr. Holden's first wife was Miss 
Katherine Hedden, daughter of Jotham Hedden, of East Orange, whom he married 
in 1862.  She died in 1870 and Dr. Holden in 1873 married Helen Stewart 
Burgess, daughter of John Burgess, of Orange.  He was survived by his widow, 
two sons and three daughters.  He was elected a life member of this Society on 
January 16, 1873.

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