1904 - 1991

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• Birth	14 May 1904	Ledyard,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Sep 1991	So. Dennis,Massachusetts
  Person ID	I34085	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Samuel Eneas HOLDRIDGE, b. 6 Jan 1872, Ledyard,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Phebe Jane HOLMES, b. 27 Aug 1873, No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F14439	Group Sheet
  Married	22 Aug 1925
  Family ID	F14446	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Barbara A. GOODENOUGH, b. 14 Oct 1903
  Married	22 Aug 1925
  Children	1. Alden H. HOLDRIDGE   2. Jean H. HOLDRIDGE
  Family ID	F14447	Group Sheet

• Notes

  A LIFE WITH A PURPOSE, by S. Archie Holdridge, private printing by author1991. In my library. p. 12. Carl attended the Geer Hill School from 1909 to 1916. This wasfollowed with one year at the Broadway Grammar School in Norwich fromwhich he graduated in 1917. He attended Norwich Free Academy for twoyears. Near the end of his first year in 1918 he was excused early towork on our home farm as I had done the year before to aid the wareffort. At the end of the second year, due to a physical handicap at thetime and after consultation with Pa, he decided to change schools andtrain for an office job. The Academy had no such courses at the time. Heenrolled in the Crandall Commercial School in Norwich in September of1919. Eight months later in April 1920, Mr. Crandall suggested he startworking days and finish his course during the evening. Five weeks afterworking for the Connecticut Trolley Co. he was offered a permanent job at$12 per week with full pack pay for the 5 weeks. Mornings consisted of counting money the conductors had turned in,but soon he was chosen as paymaster and paid all the employees weekly incash. To do this he traveled to Willimantic and New London riding upfront with the motorman and making payments on the way. He worked at the Connecticut Co. until April 1934 when he acceptedan opening at the Chelsee Saving Bank. 1934 was quite an eventful year for Carl and Barbara. In Februarythey adopted Alden, and Pa died in July that summer. He was never really happy working in the bank although he did makeprogress. In 1951 he passed the equivalency test for a high schooldiploma. In 1953, he graduated from Savings Bank Management, StonierGraduate School of Banking, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NewJersey. While at the bank he served 3 years as treasurer of the Town ofLedyard. Also during this period he became involved in CongregationalChurch denominational affairs. He was offered a position as treasurer of the American Board ofForeign Missions in the fall of 1955 with headquarters in Boston. He moved from Ledyard in December of 1955, buying a house inNewtownville, Mass. Time magazine had previously cited the high school ofthe town as one of the best in the country, especially in music. NORWICH BULLETIN, Wednesday, September 25, 1991 CARL H. HOLDRIDGE - Sept. 22, 1991 SOUTH DENNIS, Mass. -- Carl H. Holdridge, 87, of South Dennis,Mass., husband of the late Babrara (Goodenough) Holdridge, died Sunday atthe Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. He was born in Ledyard and attended public schools there. Mr. Holdridge worked for the Conn. Street Railway Co. and later forthe Chelsea Savings Bank, both in Norwich. In 1956 he moved toNewbronville, Mass, where he was treasurer of the American Board ofCommissioners for Foreign Missions in Boston. He later served as comptroller at Andover Newton Theological Schoolin Newton Center. Upon returning to Connecticut in 1963, he was treasurerand business manager of the United Church of Christ in Hartford. Heretired in 1962. Mr. Holdridge was a former member of the Ledyard CongregationalChurch and was active in church affairs on both local and state level. Hewas a member of South Dennis Congregational Church. Upon retiring to South Dennis, he continued his church relatedactivities, which included treasurer of the trustees of Jaffna CollegeFunds in Boston, and representing the United Church Board of WorldMinistries on several occasions at the college in Sri Lanka. He was a trustee of Donations for Education in the Near East; amember of the Committee on Housing Concern, Barnstable Association;director and formerly treasurer of the Christian Camp MeetingAssociation, Craigville, Mass.; a member of the executive committee ofthe Congregational Christian Historical Society in Boston; a member ofthe board of governors and finance and investment committee of BostonSeaman's Friends Society, Inc.; director and treasurer of Lady DoakCollege (in India) Funds Corp. Office in Boston. He was also avtive in many civic affairs, serving as director of theCap Cod Museum of National History, treasurer of the South Dennis FreePublic Library Association and a trustee of the Caleb Chase Fund for theTown of Dennis. Survivors include a son, Alden H. Holdridge of Ledyard; a daughter,Jean H. Goheen of Presque Isle, Maine; two brothers, S. Archie Holdridgeof Madison and Leslie R. Holdridge of San Jose, Costa Rica; sixgrandchildren; four great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. The Doane, Beal & Ames Funeral Home, 160 W. Main St., South Dennis,Mass., is in charge of arrangements.