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NAME HOLLAND 540 HOLLOWAY mortally wounded at the storming of Quebec, December 31, 1775. After the war he was settled in New Jersey, where he married in 1778. In 1790 he went to Cincinnati and began practice there in the winter of 1792-3, inoculat- ing for small-pox, the practice having been in- troduced into Cincinnati and vicinity for the first time. In the spring of 1797 he purchased a tract of land in Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, paying for it M'ith 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 1812 he was tendered a position on the medical staff of the army, which failing health compelled him to decline. He died January 6, 1813. "The Pioneer Doctor," by W. J. Conklin, M. D. Daniel Drake's ''Discourses," 1852. Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1819-1881). Josiah Gilbert Holland, editor, novelist, poet, was a Yankee in every circumstance of his life, and a strikingly characteristic example of the traits that have made the Yankee so great a force in the nation. He was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819, and was the only child of seven to Harrison Holland and his wife, Anna Gilbert (of the Gilberts of Hebron, Ct.), who survived to make a record. His ancestors on both sides were of New Eng- land descent from the earliest times; and he had the New England spirit, which, when circumstances denied him help, gave him the spur to educate himself; in his boy- hood at the district schools in winter and in summer laboring to support his family; then trying to fit himself for college, but balked of that by ill-health, teaching classes in penmanship, essaying deguer- reotypy, until at 21 he began at Northamp- ton the study of medicine, and attending the regular course of lectures at the Berk- shire Medical Institution at Pittsfield— then a famous school — he was graduated in 1843. Dr. Holland joined the Massachu- setts Medical Society in 1844, and at once began the duties of his profession in Spring- field. In the practice of medicine he soon found that he was out of his clement, and so looked around for an occupation more congenial. That, in his opinion, was jour- nalism, and in 1847, with some backing and promise of subscription, he began the pub- lication of the Bay State Weekly Courier, — which he sold out to the Gazette six months later. He went to Richmond, Va., and while there was elected superintendent of schools at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Here he made a reputation remembered even yet. Becoming homesick in 1849 he resigned and returned to Springfield. There he became an editor of the Republican and gave it its great literary reputation. In its columns appeared the cele- brated letters of Timothy Titcomb (1857-58). He wrote an authoritative "History of West- ern Massachusetts" ; Charles Scribner, who now became his warm friend, republished the Titcomb letters. He was a most successful lecturer. He wrote the poem "Bittersweet" (1858), and a novel, "Miss Gilbert's Career" (1860), etc. He was one of the founders of Scrihner's Monthly which brought a new qual- ity into and added a new dignity to American literature. He contributed to it the novels "Seven Oaks," "Nicholas Minturn" and "Ar- thur Bonnicastle," and wrote notes each month on the "Topics of the Time." When the Century Magazine succeeded Scrihner's he was its first editor. He was long a director of music in the North Church, Springfield, and one of the originators of the Memorial church. He mar- ried Elizabeth Chapin in 1845; the issue was three children. He moved to New York in 1869 and became the leader in the literary circle. Here he died of angina pectoris, October 12, 1881, hard at work writing up to the day before his death. From Springfield Republican, Oct. 13, 1891. Holloway, James Montgomery (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, Missis- sippi. His medical studies were completed in the University of Louisiana, now Tulane Uni- versity. After graduating there in 1858 he spent one year as interne at Touro Infirmary and later became a private student with Dr. Warren Stone (q. v.) at the New Orleans Charity Hospital. Dr. Holloway began prac- tice in Madison County. Mississippi, but at the beginning of the Civil War entered the Con- federate service as a private, soon after becom- ing 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