New Mexico Office of the State Historian : Holt, Herbert Bartlett

Holt, Herbert Bartlett

HERBERT BARTLETT HOLT, atty., (Rep.); b. Nov. 7, 1868, Stafford Springy, Con¬necticut; s. of Edwin P. and Martha (Bartlett) Holt; educ. pub. schls. Massachusetts; H. S. Chicopee Falls, Mass.; law education with Judge S. B. Newcomb, Las Cruces; admitted to practice law Sept. 14, 1898; mem. law firm Holt & Sutherland; came to New Mexico, Mar. 7, 1891, locating in Las Cruces; has extensive law practice; engaged in raising alfalfa and has large land interests in Mesilla valley; dir. 1st Nat. Bank, Las Cruces; secy. Las Cruces Electric Light and Ice Co.; secy.-treas. Mesilla Valley Land & Inv. Co.; official re¬porter 3rd Jud. Dist. Court, 1891-1902; secy.-treas. Bd Regents New Mex. College of Agric. and Mech. Arts, 1902-7; chief clerk New Mex. H. of Rep. 1897; Dist. Atty. 8th Dist., 1905-7; mem. and floor leader New Mex H. of Rep., 1907; one of the organizers and first president Elephant Butte Water Users' Assn., 1905-11; elected Nov. 7, 1911, as member first State Senate from Dona Ana Co. under state govt.; mem. Masons, Shriner, Knight Templar, Elks, I. O. O. F., Toltec Club, El Paso. Address: Las Cruces, N. M.