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Fort Monroe, when asked to join Brick- more, and became assistant superin- tendent, and later curator of zoology. Dr. Holder was a friend of Professor Agassiz and Spencer A. Baird, and in 1859 went to Florida at the request of these naturalists to make a zoological survey of the outer reef. He lived at Fort Jefferson, or Tortugas, where he made many interesting discoveries re- garding the growth of corals, and sent collections to various educational insti- tutions.

His best known writings are " History of the North American Fauna" (1882); "History of the Atlantic Right Whales" (1883), and "The Living World" (1884).

During the first few years Bickmore and Holder, with the assistance of Dr. Holder's son, Charles Frederick, carried on the entire work of the institution.

From the New York Even. Post, April 29, 1911.

Hole, John (1754-1813).

John Hole was born in Virginia and read medicine with Dr. Fullerton. Re- sponding to the first call for troops in the Revolutionary War he went with the Virg- inia militia to the general camp near Bos- ton, was commissioned surgeon's mate in the Continental Army, and continued in active service until the close of the war. He fought at Bunker Hill, and was pres- ent when Washington assumed command of the army. Dr. Hole was on the med- ical staff of Gen. Montgomery when the General fell mortally wounded at the storming of Quebec in 1775.

After the war he was settled in New Jersey, where he had married in 1778.

In 1790 he went to Cincinnati and be- gan practice there in the winter of 1792- 3, inoculating for small-pox, the practice having been introduced into Cincinnati and vicinity for the first time. In the spring of 1797, he purchased a tract of land in Washington Township, Mont- gomery County, Ohio, paying for it with Revolutionary land warrants, built a cabin and removed his family to the new home. In those days anything was more

plentiful than money, and produce of all kinds accepted in payment for service as shown by the following bill: "I owe Dr. John Hole one pair of leather shoes for a boy child.

Benj. Robbins."

At the onset of the War of 1S12 he was tendered a position on the medical staff of the army, which failing health com- pelled him to decline. He died January 6, 1813.

"The Pioneer Doctor.," By W. J. Conk- lin, M. A.. M. D.

Drake's "Discourses."

Holloway, James M. (1834-1905).

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, July 14, 1834, he went with his father, William P. Holloway, at the age of twelve, to Grand Gulf, Mississippi. His medical studies were completed in the University of Louisiana, now Tulane University. After graduating there in 1858 he spent one year as interne at Touro Infirmary and later became a private student with Dr. Warren Stone at the New Orleans Charity Hospital. Dr. Holloway began practice in Madison County, Mississippi, but at the beginning of the Civil War entered the Confederate service as a private, soon after becoming a surgeon with the rank of major. After serving with distinction in this capacity for one year in the field he was placed in control of the hospital ser- vice at Richmond, Virginia, where he re- mained until the close of the war. He then came to Louisville and was appoint- ed professor of anatomy in the University of Louisville, at the end of one year being transferred to the chair of physiology and medical jurisprudence which he resigned in 1S67. Among other appointments he had the professorship of clinical and oper- ative surgery in the Kentucky School of Medicine and also in the Louisville Med- ical College; the chair of surgery in the latter institution foreight years, resigning to accept the same chair in the Louisville Medical College and the Kentucky School of Medicine; in 1898 professor of surgery in the Kentucky University, medical de- partment, which position lie held until