Name : Francis Holley
Occupation : educator, traveler
Born : Cook County, Ill., Feb. 21, 1863
Died : Dec. 12, 1923
Parents : Son of David and Mary (Burch) Holley
Education : self-educated
Married : unmarried
Began at 13 as messenger in engineering corps on Northern Pacific Railway survey, later with Canadian Pacific Railway engineering corps; became civil engineer; admitted to bar in Minn. and Ill.; traveled 5 years in Europe and 4 years in the Orient, study and research; founder, 1913, and director Bureau Commercial Economics, director general department of public welfare of Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America. Republican. Presbyterian. Mason.
Office : Bureau Commercial Economics, Washington, D.C.
~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 1601 (Necrology Page 164 : Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America).
You can visit the memorial page for Francis Holley.
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