Holloway, David P – Holmes, Mary Arnold
Holloway, David P
journalist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1809, in Waynesville, Ohio. In 1843 he was elected to the lower branch of the state legislature of Indiana, and in 1844 to the state senate, serving nine years.
In 1855 he was elected a representative in congress from Indiana. In 1861 he was appointed commissioner of patents. He died Sept. 10, 1883, in Washington, D. C.
Holloway, James Montgomery
physician, educator, was born July 14, 1834, in Lexington, Ky. From 1874 till 1877 he was professor of surgery in the hospital college of the medical department of Central university, Kentucky. He has written much for medical periodicals.
Holloway, Mrs. Laura
(CAR- TER), author, was born Aug. 22, 1848, in Nashville, Tenn. She is a writer who was for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn Eagle. She is the author of Ladies of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Bronte; The Hearthstone, or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Chinese Gordon; Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson; and The Buddhist Diet Book.
Holloway, Thomas W
merchant, farmer, was born March 28, 1829, near Newberry C. H., S. C. In 1846 he went to Columpia, the capital of his state; and subsequently was placed in charge of the freight department of the Columbia and Greenville railroad.
The road being continued to Newberry, he was transferred to that place as agent. In 1852 he was elected cashier of the Bank of Newberry; and three years later engaged in merchandising and farming. Since 1858 he has been the secretary of the State Agricultural and Mechanical society of South Carolina, and still fills that office in Pomaria. He was prominent in the affairs of the state grange, and was its secretary until that order was superseded by the alliance. Colonel Holloway has received the merited distinction of being the most progressive and best qualified secretary of any of the states.
Holly, Charles F
lawyer, jurist.
He was appointed a judge of the United States court for the territory of Colorado.
Holly, Henry Hudson
architect, author, was born in 1843, in New York.
He is an architect of New York city, and the author of Country Seats; Church Architecture; and Modern Dwellings in Town and Country.
Holman, Jesse Lynch
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1784, in Danville, Ky. He resided at Lawrenceburg, Ind., and about the year 1836 was appointed United States judge for the district of Indiana. He died March 28, 1842, in Aurora, Ind.
Holman, William Steele
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1822, in Verdstown, Ind. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Indiana in 1850; was a member of the state legislature in 1851; and was a judge of the court of common pleas from 1852 to 1856. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-sixth, thirtyseventh, thirty-eighth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. He served more years in congress than any other member. He died April 22, 1897, in Washington, D. C.
Holme, John
poet, was born in England. He left in manuscript a long and interesting poem entitled A True Relation of the Flourishing State of Pennsylvania, which was preserved by his descendants and published for the first time in Bulletin of Historical Collections. He died in 1701, in Salem, N. J.
Holme, Thomas
civil engineer, was born in 1625, in Ireland. His map of the Province of Pennsylvania, together with his Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, published extensively in Europe in 1683-84, has made his name familiar to every student of American history. He died in 1695, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Holmes, Adoniram Judson
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 2, 1842, in Wayne county, Ohio.
He served throughout the war, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. He was elected a representative in the Iowa state legislature in 1881; was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortyeighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Holmes, Abiel
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 24, 1763, in Woodstock, Conn. He was a unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, pastor of the First church there in 1792-1832, and was the author of Life of Ezra Stiles; History of Cambridge; American Annals; and Memoir of the French Protestants. He died June 4, 1837, in Cambridge, Mass.
Holmes, Alexander J
soldier, clergyman, was born Sept. 29, 1845, in Coxsackie, N. Y. During the civil war he served gallantly as a soldier in tne second regiment of the New York volunteer cavalry. He received a commercial education; studied law; and in 1872 entered the ministry of the methodist episccpal church. He has attained success as a clergyman; has helped three missions to a self-supporting basis; and designed and built six churches and three parsonages.
He now fills a pastorate in Algonac, Mich.
Holmes, Charles H
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1827, in Albion, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of Albion, N. Y.; and was elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy, as a republican.
Holmes, David
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born in Frederick county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1797 to 1809, and in the latter year was appointed governor of the territory of Mississippi, which position he held until 1817. He was governor of the state, by election, from 1817 to 1819; and was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1820 to 1825, when he resigned. He died Aug. 20, 1832, in Washington, Miss.
Holmes, David
clergyman, author, was born in 1810, in Newburg, N. Y.
From 1868 till his death he was in the ministry in the northwestern Indiana conference. He edited The Mirror of the Soul; and The Christian Preacher; and was the author of Pure Gold in its Native Loveliness; and of a Discussion upon the Atonement, Universal Salvation, and Endless Punishment. He died in 1873, in Battle Ground, Mich.
Holmes, Edmund M
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Dec. 15, 1859, in Hardin county, Ohio. During 1885-89 he filled the chair of Greek in the Simpson college, and during 1889-92 was president of that institution. He now fills a pastorate in Boone, Iowa.
Holmes, Elias B
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born May 27, 1807, in Fletcher, Vt. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to
Holmes, Gabriel
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in 1769, in Samson county, N. C. He was in the state senate in 1807; governor of the state in 1821; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1825 to 1828. He died Sept. 26, 1829, near Clinton, N. C. was
Holmes, George Frederick
educator, college president, author, born in 1820, in British Guiana. In 1846 he was president of the university of Mississippi; and in 1847 professor of history, political economy, and international law in William and Mary college. In 1857 he 1857 he was chosen professor of history and literature in the university of Virginia. He is the author of a series of text-books .
Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana Klin- Gle
artist, poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of two collections of poems of poems entitled Make Tny Way and Mine; and In the Name of the King, published under the pen name of George Klingle. She is also an artist of merit. She founded Arthur's Home for Destitute Boys, at Summit, N. J., in memory of a son who died at the age of nine years at Summit, N. J. a
Holmes, Isaac Edward
planter, lawyer, congressman, was born April 6 , 1796, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1826; and was ; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina, from 1839 to 1851. He died Feb. died Feb. 24, 1867, in Charleston, S. C.
Holmes, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, author, was born in March, 1773, in. Kingston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1802, 1803, and 1812; was a boundary commissioner under the treaty of 1815; and a state senator from 1813 to 1815. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts, from 1817 to 1820; and was a senator in congress from Maine from 1820 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1833. During a part of 1829, and from 1835 to 1838, he was a member of the Maine legislature. He was United States district attorney, and district judge for Maine from 1841 until his death . He was the author of The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation. He died July 7, 1843, in Portland, Maine.
Holmes, John Mcclellan
clergyman, journalist, was born Jan. 22, 1834, in Livingston, N. Y. He was for several years a member of the educational and missionary boards of the reformed church, president of the general synod in 1876, a delegate to the pan-presbyterian council at Edinburgh in 1877, and moderator of the presbyterian synod of New York in 1884. He was also for some time an associate editor of the Christian Intelligencer.
Holmes, Mary Arnold
philanthropist, was born June 15, 1842, in Ellington, N. Y. She has been a member of the executive committee of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Iowa since 1882; and since 1889 has been a trustee of Benedict home of Des Moines, Iowa. She is the president of the Marshalltown Associated Charitable society.