Show 0 a E E. Holden Civil War Financier Dead 1 NEW EW PHILADELPHIA 0 O. Dee Dec 27 Charles Charles harles E Edwards ards Holden 96 retired clay manufacturer banker editor and merchant who owned the thc first daug studio in New York at Broadway and nard streets In 1848 died at his home in Canton 0 O. today Mr Holden HoIden has been a resident ot of Canton Canton Canton Can Can- ton since 1911 wh when n he retired from active neUve business Mr Holden aided Jay Cooko Cooke In financial operations during the tho Civil war and it was through a suggestion suggestion sug sug- of ot Holden that President Lincoln made a test of ot Austrian arms which led to the cry they were defective Mr r Holdon's Holdens first newspaper r employment em em- was In the old New Sew York Sun office where ho was a type setter In 1864 I he came caine to Mineral City 0 O. twelve twel miles northwest of ot here which then had hall but three houses housea and through his efforts made the tho place into au an Important coal and cia clay center I Following funeral service Monday Monday Mon Mon- Ion Ion- day at Canton the body wilt will be beI betaken betaken taken lo to New brew York for burial I |