Henry Holt

Henry Chandler Holt (January 13, 1881 – February 20, 1955) was an American football player and banker. He played college football at Yale University and was selected as a consensus All-American in 1901. He later worked for the Central Hanover Bank & Trust from 1912 to 1946.

Early life Holt was born in the Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx section of New York City in 1881. He was the son of federal judge George Chandler Holt. He attended preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, before enrolling at Yale. He was a member of Skull and Bones and Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale in 1903. They had three children, Margaret Carson Holt (born September 1920), Mary Bowen Holt (born April 1924), and Susanna Aspinwall Holt (born April 1924). Holt lived at Chandler Farms in Pomfret, Connecticut. He died in 1955 at age 74 in Putnam, Connecticut.