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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.
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, in 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 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.
Holcombe, Hosea
clergyman, author, was born July 20, 1780, in Union district, S. C. He was a baptist clergyman of Alabama, and the author of Collection of Sacred Hymns; Anti-Mission Principles Exposed; and History of Alabama Baptists. He died in 1841, in Jefferson county, Ala. HOLCOMBE, JAMES PHILEMON, lawyer, educator, author, was born Sept. 25, 1820, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a lawyer and educator of Virginia, professor of law in the university of Virginia in 1852-60, and a member of the confederate congress in 1861-1863. He was the author of Law of Debtor and Creditor ; Literature and Letters; Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence; Leading Cases upon Commercial Law; Digest of United States Supreme Court Decisions; and and Merchants' Book of Reference. He died Aug. 26, 1873, in Capon Springs, Va.
Holcombe, Melvin Allen
educator, lawyer, author, was born April 16, 1870, in Maulden, Ky. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native state; attended the National Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio, and the College of Kentucky. For several years he taught in the public schools; and during 1894-97 was superintendent of public schools for Jackson county, Ky. He has built fifty-four school houses; and is now professor of mathematics in the Berea college.
He was admitted to the bar in 1894; is the author of The History of Jackson County; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Holcombe, William Frederick
physician, author, was born in 1827, in Maine. He is a physician of New York city, professor of eye and ear diseases in several medical institutions, and is the author of History of Mount Sterling, Kentucky; History of the Holcombes in America; and Family Records, their Importance and Value. a
Holcombe, William Henry
physician, author, poet, was born May 25, 1825, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a homœopathic physician of New Orleans, who was well known as a Swedenborgian writer, and was the author of Our Children in Heaven; Lost Truths of Chris- Southern The Other Life; tianity; Voices, a volume of verse; Scientific Basis of Homœopathy; How I Became a Homœopath; Poems; The Sexes Here and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End of the World; The New Tenant; Letters on Spiritual Subjects; and Condensed Thoughts About Christian Science. He died in 1894.
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 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 died in 1831, in Charlestown, Mass. a
Holden, Warren
educator, poet, was born Feb. 1, 1817, in Newark, N. J. , N. J.
After receiving his education he took a took a voyage round Cape Horn to the west coast of South America. He subsequently became teacher in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey, until called to Girard college in 1852. After forty-five years of service as professor of mathematics in that institution, he was retired in 1896 with a yearly pension.
He is the author of several volumes of poems, entitled Fourteen Sonnets; Song of the Sea; Autobiography of Love; Spiritual Evolution; Discovery of America; and others. All these works contain gems of song that place Mr. Holden in the foremost rank of American poets.
Holden, William Woods
journalist, governor, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in Orange county, N. C. He was provisional governor of the state in 1865; was elected governor in 1869, but was impeached for malfeasance in office, and in 1872 was removed from the governorship by a twothirds vote of the senate of North Carolina, sitting as a court of impeachment.
Holder, Charles Frederick
naturalist, author, was born Aug. 5, 1851, in Lynn, Mass. He is a naturalist of New York city, and a popular writer upon natural history topics. He is the author of Elements of Zoology; Marvels of Animal Life; The Ivory King; Living Lights; Wonder Wings; A Strange Company; A Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales; All About Pasadena; Along the Florida Reef; Life of Agassiz; and Young Folks' Story Book of Natural History.
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.
Holdich, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born April 20, 1804, in England. He is a methodist clergyman who was secretary of the American Bible society in 1849-78, and is the author of Bible History; Life of A. H. Hurd; and Life of Wilbur Fisk.
Holladay, Albert Lewis
college president, was born April 16, 1805, in Spottsylvania county, Va. In 1856 he was elected president of Hampden Sidney college. He died Oct. 18, 1856, in Mansfield, Va.
Holladay, Alexander R
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.