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Henry Holdship (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, clerk and commissioner of deeds)

b. 1825? d. 1897?

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, clerk and commissioner of deeds. Pennsylvania native. Married to Maria Holdship. Father of Charles Holdship and George W. Holdship. Clerk for the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company in 1861. Assistant secretary and treasurer of the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company in 1863. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Allegheny Ward 4, p. 66; The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial (Pittsburgh, Pa.), November 24, 1863, p. 1; Find A Grave, "Henry Holdship (1825-1897)," Memorial #122389150, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=122389150&ref=acom (accessed May2, 2017); Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities . . . for 1861-62 (Pittsburgh: George H. Thurston, 1861), 138.

Citation

Holdship, Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213268 (November 12, 2026).

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