Horace Holley (1887–1960)
- Horace Holley (1887–1960)
Infobox Person
name = Horace Holley
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caption = Horace Holley, detail from larger photograph
birth_date = Apr 7, 1887
birth_place = Torrington, Connecticut, United States
death_date = July 1960
death_place = Haifa, Israel
other_names =
title = Hand of the Cause
occupation =
nationality = United States
religion = Bahá'í Faith
spouse = Bertha Herbert (1909-1919)
Doris Pascal (1919-)
children = Hertha (1910 or 1911, Italy)
Marcia (1916, Greenwich Village, United States)
Horace Holley (born April 7, 1887 in Torrington, Connecticut, died July 12, 1960 in Haifa, Israel) was a prominent follower of the Bahá'í Faith, having been elected to several Spiritual Assemblies, appointed by Shoghi Effendi in 1951 to be a Hand of the Cause, and later elected to be one of the nine Custodians who stewarded the religion from 1957-1963.
Holley was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1887. He was introduced to the Bahá'í Faith in 1909, and later served as a member and secretary to the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada, first being elected in 1923. He also became editor of "World Unity Magazine". He was elected by his fellow Hands of the Cause to be a Custodian in 1959. This being announced on Christmas Day of 1959 in the New York Times:
"The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais announced today that Horace Holley had resigned as secretary to become chief steward of the faith at international headquarters in Haifa, Israel." ["New York Times", Dec 25, 1959, p12]
He and his wife Doris, moved to Haifa, where he died Jul 1960. He is buried at the foot of Mount Carmel in Haifa.
Notes
References
*cite book
first=Barron
last=Harper
year=1997
title=Lights of Fortitude
edition=Paperback
publisher=George Ronald
location=Oxford, UK
id=ISBN 0-85398-413-1
External links
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** "Read-Aloud Plays" (1916). A collection of stories involving the Bahá'í Faith
* [http://bahai-library.com/encyclopedia/holley.html Biography] by R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram
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