Gender:FemaleBirth year and Place:1856New York NY
City of Residence:PuebloDate of Death:07/16/1943
Place of Death:Castle Rock WA
Notes:
1 of the 3 women to be first elected as a state representative in Colorado.
1st woman in U.S. history to initiate and get bill passed (one raising age of
consent for females to18 from16); article in Vertical File Women Legislators --
Colorado. Married to Charles F. Holly, who was speaker of the territorial
legislature. Corrections made to profile at the request of J. E. Gaughan, Ph.D.
judy.gaughan@csupueblo.edu. The birthdate was incorrect.
http://www.strongsisters.org/carrie-holly/
http://southerncoloradoterritorialdaughters.org/genealogy-and-history/carrie-c-h
olly
From: "Gaughan, Judy E" <judy.gaughan@csupueblo.edu>
To: "lcs.ga@state.co.us" <lcs.ga@state.co.us>
Date: 03/27/2019 01:57 PM
Subject: Correction
Greetings,
According to the U.S. Census records, Carrie Clyde Holt (who became Holly) was
4 years old in 1860 and was living in Stamford, Connecticut, so she could not
have been born in 1866. She was born in New York city in 1856.
Here is the page with the error:
http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/leghist.nsf/DocView.xsp?documentId=70079DAA0EDB38
C4872578E2005F2045&action=openDocument
J. E. Gaughan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Phi Alpha Theta Advisor
Colorado State University, Pueblo
judy.gaughan@csupueblo.edu
719-549-2417