When Harley Holt was born in 1887, in Iowa, United States, his father, Starling Holt, was 27 and his mother, Delcena "Della" Harrison, was 23. He died on 23 October 1890, in his hometown, at the age of 3.
English, North German, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, from Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, and Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word. In England, the surname is widely distributed, but more common in Lancashire and Yorkshire than elsewhere.
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