When Katharine Davis Holden was born on 3 November 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Albert Fairchild Holden, was 31 and her mother, Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Davis, was 29. She married Edwin Converse Higbee on 27 June 1918, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1937 and lived in Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States for about 55 years. She died on 27 October 1985, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
At 792 feet above Broadway, the Woolworth Building became the tallest building in the world and held the record for 17 years. The Woolworth Building was overshadowed by the Chrysler Building at 1,046 feet in 1930 and the Empire State Building at 1,454 feet in 1931. Retailer and mogul Frank W. Woolworth commissioned the Woolworth Building in 1910 with the intent of his namesake building to be the tallest in the world. The 13 million dollar project was financed in cash by Woolworth which allowed him freedoms in the design and construction of the ornate, gothic building. An opening ceremony was held on April 24, 1913 at which President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button from the White House and lit the historic building in New York City.
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
English: habitational name from one or more of various places so named, especially Holden in Haslingden (Lancashire), but also Holden in Bolton and Holden in Silsden (both Yorkshire), Holedean Farm in Henfield and Holden in Rotherfield (both Sussex), Holding Farm in Cheriton and Woolding Farm in Whitchurch (Hampshire), and Holden in Southborough (Kent). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + denu ‘valley’, though Holden in Rotherfield (Sussex) and Holden in Southborough (Kent) may have Old English denn ‘pasture’ as the final element. Compare Holcomb .
Norwegian: habitational name from the name of several farms, most of them derived from Old Norse hǫll ‘slope, hillside’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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