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Hoit, Albert Gallatin – Holbrook, John Edwards

Hoit, Albert Gallatin

artist, was born Dec. 13, 1809, in Sandwich, N.

H. He became a portrait painter, but he was also successful as a landscape artist.

He died Dec. 18, 1856, in West Roxbury, Mass.

Hoit, James De Witt C

physician, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1842, in Laconia, N. H. He graduated in medicine from the Missouri Medical college of St.

Louis; and has practiced his profession with success in Yates City and Elmwood, Ill. He has contributed extensively to medical literature and the periodical press; and his poems have been incorporated into Poets of America and other standard works.

Hoke, Jacob

author. He is the author of The Age we Live In; Holiness, or the Higher Christian Life; Clusters from Eshcol; Guide to the Battle- Field of Gettysburg; and The Great Invasion of 1863.

Hoke, Martha Harriet

artist, was born March 23, 1861, in St. Louis, Mo. As a portrait painter on ivory her name is prominently known, and she is also known by her superior work in black and white. During 1890 she taught drawing from the antique in the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.

Holahan, Martha Eileen

poet, was born July 1, 1863, in Turner, Ill. She is the author of a poem in one volume entitled Nondescript, or The Passionate Recluse. to a

Holbrook, Alfred

educator, was born in 1816, in Derby, Conn. He possessed great inventive talents and a taste for civil engineering, but devoted himself educational work. He founded large institution at Lebanon, Ohio, principally for the training of teachers, which proved successful. In 1897 he was elected chancellor of the Southern Normal university of Huntington, Tenn. He is Teaching; an English Grammar Conformthe author of The Normal, or Methods of ed to Present Usage; a volume of Lectures; and other works.

Holbrook, Amos

physician, was born Jan. 23, 1754, in Bellingham, Mass.

He established temporary hospitals for the admission of patients who had been inoculated for the small-pox, and was active in introducing and promoting public vaccination in Milton, Mass., which was the first town in the country that in a corporate capacity gave its inhabitants the benefits of this protective agent. He died June 17, 1842, in Milton, Mass.

Holbrook, Charles C

lawyer, jurist, was born July 13, 1848, in Russell county, Va. In 1881 he was elected district attorney of the fourth judicial district of Colorado at Alamosa. In 1891 he was elected district judge for an unexpired term of three years; and in 1894 was re-elected to the same office for a full term of six years.

Holbrook, E. D

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1836, in Elyria, Ohio. Having moved to Idaho, he was elected a delegate from that territory to the thirtyninth congress; and re-elected to the fortieth congress.

Holbrook, Frederick

governor, was born in 1813, in East Windsor, Conn.

He was governor of Vermont from 1861 to 1863.

Holbrook, James

journalist, author, was born in 1812. He was, from 1845, a special agent of the United States postoffice. He published Ten Years Among the Mailbags. He died April 28, 1864, in Brooklyn, Conn.

Holbrook, John Edwards

physician, naturalist, author, was born Dec. 30, 1794, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a physician and naturalist, professor of anatomy at the medical college in Charleston for more than thirty years, and was the author of American Herpetology; and Ichthyology of South Carolina. He died Sept. 8, 1871, in Norfolk, Mass.