Representative Howard M. Holden View All Years
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Howard M. Holden
Washington County
Born in Maiden, Mass., on the 28th day of August, 1837. His parents were Rev. Eli Holden and Phoebe Holden, of that place. He received a good English and business education in the local schools of Maiden, having graduated from the High school, but has not had the advantages of a collegiate course. In 1855 he came west and located in Muscatine, Iowa, where he connected himself with the banking house of Messrs. Green & Stone. In 1856 Mr. Holden represented his county in the Iowa Legislature, where he made many political friends who sought his consent to become a candidate for state treasurer at the next election. It seemed that a political career was thus opening upon him, but it was less attractive to him than banking and he declined it. In 1858, he was offered a connection with the American Exchange Bank of New York, which he accepted and remained for about a year, when he returned to Iowa, and in the winter of 1859-60 he established a branch of the Iowa State Bank at Marshall in Washington county, of which he was at first cashier, and afterward president. He confined in the management of this bank until the spring of 1866, when he withdrew from it. In the fall of that year he came to Kansas City. He was married to Miss Mary F. Oburn, daughter of Rev. William Oburn, in Indiana, in 1867, and has three children. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church of this city, and was once quite an active Mason, but has not given much attention to the order during his residence in Kansas City.
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