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Holbrook, Martin Luther – Holder, Joseph Bassett

Holbrook, Martin Luther

physician, editor, author, was born Feb. 30, 1831, in Mantua, Ohio. He is a physician of New York city, professor of hygiene in the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, and editor of The Herald of Health and Journal of Hygiene. He is the author of Parturition Without Pain; Eating for Strength; Hygiene of Brain and Nerves; Marriage and Parentage; How to Strengthen the Memory; and Hygienic Treatment of Consumption.

Holbrook, Reginald Heber

educator, author, was born April 10, 1845, in Berea, Ohio. He was the president of the Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio. He is the author of The New Method; First Principles of Science of Education; and Outlines of United States History.

Holbrook, Silas Pinckney

lawyer, author, was born June 1, 1796, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a lawyer of Medfield, Mass., and the author of Sketches by a Traveller. He died May 26, 1835, ın Pineville, S. C.

Holcomb, George

lawyer, congressman, was born in Lambertsville, N.

J He was a member of the state legislature in 1815; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1821 to 1828. He died Jan. 14, 1828, in Allentown.

Holcomb, Silas Alexander

lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Aug. 25, 1858, in Gibson county, Ind. For two terms he served as judge of the twelfth judicial district of Nebraska; was elected governor of Nebraska in 1894, and received the re-election in 1896.

Holcombe, Amasa

scientist, state senator, was born June 18, 1787, in Cranby, Conn. He had no competitors in the manufacturing of the reflecting telescope for twenty years; and he constructed the first instrument and took the first Daguerrean portrait in this county. He was justice of the peace for thirty-two years; and elected a state senator in 1840. He died Feb. 27, 1873, in Southwick, Mass.

Holcombe, Henry

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1762, in Virginia. He was a baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of Lectures on Primitive Theology; and First Fruits. He died May 22, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Holden, Edmund Singleton

astronomer, educator, author, was born Nov. 5, 1846, in St. Louis, Mo. He is an astronomer, president of the university of California since 1880, and director of the Lick observatory. He is the author of Astronomy for Students; Life of Sir William Herschel; Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion; Notes on the Bastion System of Fortification; Astronomical Bibliography; Handbook of Lick Observatory; and The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan.

Holden, George Henry

author, was born in 1848, in Massachusetts. He is the proprietor of a bird store in Boston who has published Canaries and Cage Birds.

Holden, Luther Loud

author. He is the author of Persis, a Tale of the White Mountains; and A Summer Jaunt through the Old World.

Holden, Oliver

composer, was born Sept. 18, 1763, in Shirley, Mass. He will always be remembered by his worldhis worldwide regal hymn, Coronation. He died in 1831, in Charlestown, Mass. a

Holder, Joseph Bassett

Zoologist, author, was born Oct. 26, 1808, in Lynn, Mass. He was a zoologist who was a curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city. He was the author of History of the North American Fauna; History of the Atlantic Right Whales; and The Living World. He died Feb. 28, 1888, in New York city.