b.May 16, 1872, at Mark Island, ME; m.Apr. 12, 1899, at Malden, MA, Mary Emma Barnes, b.March 4, 1875, at Somerville (A.B.Boston Univ., 1897; A.M. Brown, 1908; Phi Pata Kappa) d/o Albert Lemuel and Clara Robinson (Shepard) Barnes.

Mr. Holden worked in Boston a year after graduation from the Malden High School. He then entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leaving to teach school from 1892 to 1897, but returned and took his degree as Bachelor of Science in 1899. In 1908 he received a master's degree in arts from Brown University for graduate work, and did other graduate work in eduation at Rhode Island College and the University of Chicago. He was Principal of high sschools at Moonsocket, RI (1903-12), and at York, Pa. (1912-19). Since 1919 he has been Superintendent of Schools of Hillsboro Supervisory Union, with residence at Hillsboro, NH. Since 1878 he has lived in Malden, Roxbury, Wellesley, and Winchester, and the places mentioned above.

The Deer Isle Messenger of June 25, 1903 printed the following article:

"Amasa A. Holden, formerly of this place, has recently been elected principal of the Woonsocket, Mass., High School. His salary is fixed at $1,500. The following from a Woonsocket paper may interest the young man's relatives and friends here:

"Mr. Holden was born May 16, 1872 at Deer Isle, Maine. He is the third genreation of teachers of mathematics in his family, his father and grandfather each having taught in this branch. His grandfather, born in [Mendon?], Mass., taught in Woonsocket and surrounding towns over 100 years ago. Mr. Holden was educated at a Boston grammar school and was graduated from the Malden, Mass., high school and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed his college education with post-graduate work at Harvard. He has been teaching for ten years in Tennessee, Virginai, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. He came here from the Chelsea, Mass. High School where he taught English and History, three years ago. Mr. Holden is married; is socially well liked and is prominently identified with religious work in this city, especially in connection with the Globe Congreational Church and the Young Men's Christian Association."