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Holley, Horace

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Horace Holley, detail from larger photograph
Horace Holley, detail from larger photograph

Horace Holley (1887 - 1960) 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.

"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."[1]

He died in Haifa, Jul 1960.

Marriages and Children

  • Married Bertha Herbert Oct 1909, divorced in 1919
  1. Hertha was born in Italy 1910 or 1911.
  2. Marcia born in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1916
  • Married Doris Pascal in 1919.

Notes

  1. ^ New York Times, Dec 25, 1959, p12

References

  • Harper, Barron (1997). Lights of Fortitude, Paperback, Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-413-1. 

External links

  • Works by Horace Holley at Project Gutenberg
    • Read-Aloud Plays (1916). A collection of stories involving the Bahá'í Faith
  • Biography by R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram


Series on the
Bahá'í Faith
 Central Figures Scripture Key Figures Principal Teachings See also
The Báb
Bahá'u'lláh
Abdu'l-Bahá		 Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Kitáb-i-Íqán
Hidden Words
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
Summons		 Shoghi Effendi
Martha Root · Táhirih
Badí‘ · Apostles
Hands of the Cause		 Unity of humanity
Unity of religion
Gender equality
Science and religion
Auxiliary language		 Symbols · Literature
Teachings · Laws
History · Administration
Calendar · Pilgrimage
Index of Bahá'í Articles
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