Sentence:  On December 9 , 1862 , Sergeant Edwin H. Fay , an unusual Louisianan who <WSD>held</WSD> A. B. and M. A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana , wrote his wife : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense