Holt, Carlyle Huntington

Carlyle Huntington Holt was born on February 13, 1890 to Elizabeth Dodge Hammon and Gustavus Crocker Holt at Waverly, Massachusetts .

He attended Middlesex School and Harvard College (Class of 1912).  He lived in Brookline and  worked in the insurance business. Holt volunteered as an ambulance driver and served from January to August 1915 with SSU 2.
Upon returning from France he became a newspaperman and joined the staff of The Boston Globe. After the United States entered the war he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Holt was discharged in April 1919. During WWI he spent a total of 25 months in France.

1921 he married Constance Lewis of Swamscott. They lived in Salem, Massachusetts.

During World War Two Holt was The Globe's correspondent in the European theater and later covered the United Nations assemblies.
In 1947 he won an Associated Press prize and was awarded the Médaille de la France libérée. That same year he was assigned to the conference of Foreign Ministers in Moscow and in 1949 the one in Paris. He became ill during a trip to the battlefields of Normandy.

Carlyle H. Holt passed away on September 18, 1949 at age 59.