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man who had given five years of his life as chief
engineer of its construction. Holland was active
in many engineering societies. He was a mem-
ber of the board of direction of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the
American Association of Engineers, and treas-
urer, secretary, vice-president, and president,
successively, of the Harvard Engineering So-
ciety. In his honor the engineering scholarship
of the Harvard Society was renamed the Clif-
ford M. Holland Memorial Aid in Engineering.
Holland married Anna Coolidge Davenport of
Watertown, Mass., on Nov. 5,1908. He died at
Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone in an at-
tempt to regain his health.

[Proc. Am, Soc. Civil Engineers, vols. L and LI
(1924-25) ; memoir in Trans. Am. Soc, Civil Engi-
neers, vol. LXXXIX (1926); Engineering News-Rec-
ord, Oct. 30, 1924; Harvard Coll. Class of 1906. Twen-
tieth Anniversary Report (1926); Harvard Grads.'
Mag., June 1925; Who's Who in America, 1924-25;
N. Y. Times, Oct. 28, 1924-] F.A.T.

HOLLAND, EDMUND MILTON (Sept. 7,
i848-Nov. 24, 1913), actor, was the second and
ablest of the sons of George [#.z>.] and Catherine
(De Luce) Holland. He made his first appear-
ance on the stage on Dec, 20, 1855, in Wallaces
Lyceum, as Master Thompson in To Parents and
Guardians. At fifteen he was a responsible call-
boy at Mrs. John Wood's Olympic, occasionally
appearing on the boards. In his fourth season
he was a regular member of the company at Bar-
num's Museum and later he appeared with Jef-
ferson in the first New York production of Rip
Van Winkle. When in 1867 he joined Wallack's
company, his father had him billed for a time as
E. Milton, until he was certain that the boy would
not discredit the family name. He served a thir-
teen-years' apprenticeship at Wallack's, gaining
steadily in range, power, subtlety, and restraint,
and in time he was entrusted with leading comedy
roles. His first personal success was scored as
Silky in The Road to Ruin, the first of his many
notable old-men's parts. Leaving Wallack's in
1879 he played a London engagement with Mc-
Kee Rankin, then for more than a decade, be-
ginning in 1882, he was cast for leading roles in
the famous Madison Square stock company—
later Palmer's. Among other memorable parts he
played Lot Burden in Saints and Sinners, Gib-
son in The Private Secretary, Captain Redmond
in Jim the Penman, Colonel Moberly in Ala-
bama, and the title role in Colonel Carter of Car-
tersville. Later he allied himself with Charles
Frohman's Comedians, appearing as Eben Hoi-
den in the play of that name, and in 1902-03 as
Pope Pius X in The Eternal City. From 1903
to 1906 he appeared with Kyrle Bellew in Raffles

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and in The American Cracksman, then in 1910
he joined the company at the New Theatre, where
he remained for two seasons. In 1912 he at-
tained the avowed height of his ambition—an en-
gagement with Belasco. He was cast as Metz in
Years of Discretion, but just as the company
went on the road he died suddenly in Chicago of
heart-disease on Nov. 24,1913.

Holland married in 1875 an actress, Mary E.
Seward. He was survived by a son, Joseph, and
a daughter, Edna Milton Holland, who was ap-
pearing on the stage contemporaneously with
him. As an actor he was regarded as a character
comedian of the school of Joseph Jefferson and
was credited by critics of his day with unfailing
delicacy and good taste, precision, infinite hu-
mor, and sagacity. His power of suggestion was
unlimited. He had an actor's face—clean-shaven,
tight-lipped, with deepset eyes and a broad dome-
shaped head. He was adroit in make-up, but he
could get his effects without it, or without any
eccentricity of costume, relying on gait, facial
expression, inflections of the voice, or gesture
to depict a character. He played between five
hundred and a thousand roles and gave hundreds
of "well-pondered performances rendered with
unvarying penetration and finish."

[G. L. Lathrop, "Edmund Milton Holland," in F. E.
McKay and C. E. L. Wingate, Famous Am. Actors of
Today (1896); M. J. Moses, Famous Actor-Families in
America (1906); Who's Who in America, 1912-13;
John Parker, Who's Who in the Theatre (1912) ; L. C
Strang, Famous Actors of the Day in America (1900) ;
J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett, Players of the Present,
Dunlap Soc. Pubs., 3 pts. (1899-1901) ; Wm. Winter,
The Wallet of Time (2 vols., 1913) ; N. Y. Dramatic
News, Nov. 29, 1913; N. Y. Dramatic Mirror, Dec. 3,
1913; New York Times, Notv. 25, 1913; Robinson
Locke collection, N. Y. Pub, Lib.] j^ jjt jj^

HOLLAND, EDWIN CLIFFORD 0.1794-
Sept. ii, 1824), author, the son of John Holland,
previously of Wilmington, N. C, by his wife
Jane, the widow of Abraham Marshall of East
Florida, was born and lived his short life in
Charleston, S. C. At that time the nascent liter-
ary culture of the town seemed promising. A
flourishing theatre incited the dramatic efforts of
Isaac Harby [q.v.] and John Blake White, while
the anonymous author of Carolina (1790), a
topographical poem written in 1776, and Joseph
Brown Ladd [q.v.] were the forerunners of
George Heartwell Spierin, John H. Woodward,
John Davis of Coosawhatchie, and William
Crafts [q.v.]. Holland, who is said to have stud-
ied law and then to have turned to journalism
and become editor of the Charleston Times, be-
longed to this group of fledgling bards. He
mailed several effusions north to Joseph Den-
nie's Port Folio and printed articles over the sig-
nature "Orlando" in local papers. In his twen-

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