Born: 20-Jul-1832
Birthplace: Lakeville, CT
Died: 29-Jan-1882
Location of death: Brooklyn, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Engineer, Inventor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Designed steel foundries

Father: Alexander Hamilton Holley (former governor of Connecticut)
Mother: Jane M. Lyman
Wife: Mary Slade (m. 1855)
Daughter: Gertrude

    University: BA Philosophy, Brown University (1853)
    Administrator: Board of Trustees, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

    The New York Times foreign technical correspondent (1858-75)
    American Society of Civil Engineers
    American Society of Mechanical Engineers
    Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
    Institution of Civil Engineers
    Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain
    Theta Delta Chi Fraternity
    National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006)

Author of books:
A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and General Opinions Concerning the Material, Fabrication, Requirements, Capabilities, and Endurance of European and American Guns for Naval, Sea-Coast, and Iron-Clad Warfare, and their Rifling, Projectiles, and Breech-Loading (1865, nonfiction)

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