Holden, Warren
educator, poet, was born Feb. 1, 1817, in Newark, N. J. , N. J.
After receiving his education he took a voyage round Cape Horn to the west coast of South America. He subsequently became teacher in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey, until called to Girard college in 1852. After forty-five years of service as professor of mathematics in that institution, he was retired in 1896 with a yearly pension.
He is the author of several volumes of poems, entitled Fourteen Sonnets; Song of the Sea; Autobiography of Love; Spiritual Evolution; Discovery of America; and others. All these works contain gems of song that place Mr. Holden in the foremost rank of American poets.