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13, 1861; lieutenant-colonel and department quartermaster. July '2d, ISW); colonel and as- sistant quarterma,-^ter-general. Jan. 'S2. 1881: brigadier-geuei-al and quartermaster-general, July 1, 1883, and retired, June 16, 1800. In the voluntet T service lie was made major and acting aide-iie- camp. July 2, 1862; an 1 c^ilonel and act- ing aide-de-camp, July 11, 1862. and he was lionorably mus- tered out. May 31, \G. He was bre- vttti-tl major, lieuten- ant-colonel, colonel ^ yj I/f^^J^ y '^ and brigadier-gener- iZ^J. mtS^^ al, Man-h 13, 1865, for faitliful and mer- itorious services during the war. He was on duty at the U.S. Military academy as adju- tant, 1859-61; was assistant quartermaster in the army in northern Virginia, 1801-62; served in the Maryland campaign, 1862; was chief quartermaster in the Department of the Gulf. 1862-65; depot quartermaster at New Orleans, La., 1865; cliief quartermaster in the Depart- ment of Louisiana, 1865-66; deputy quarter- master-general at Washington, D.C., 1366-81, and quartermaster-general, 1881-83. He trans- lated General Jomini's Treatise on Grand Militarij Operations (1865).

HOLBROOK, Alfred, educator, was born in Derby. Conn.. Feb. 17. 1816; son of Josiah an 1 Lucy (Swift) Holbrook; grandson of Deacon Daniel and Anne (Hitchcock) Holbrook; great- grandson of Deacon Daniel and Elizabeth (Riggs) Holbrook; greaf'-grandson of Deacon Abel and Haimah (Meriam) Holbrook and greats-grandson of John Holbrook, who emigrated from Derbj-, England, and settled at Oyster Bay, L.L, N.Y., wlien his son Abel was born in 1653. On his mother's side his first ancestor in America was William Swift, of Sandwich, Mass., one of the party of English immigrants who settled in Boston in 1630-31. Alfred was educated at Groton academy, Mass., and under the direction of his fatlier, an educator ami inventor, both of which callings he followed. He founded a .school for training teachers at Lebanon, Ohio, in 18.55, which grew into the National Normal university, of which he was president until 1897. wlien lie became cliancellor of the Southern Normal uni- versity, Huntingdon, Tenn. This continuous labor in the education of teachers for nearly fifty years entitled Chancellor Holbrook to be classed as the dean of the profession in America.

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He is the author of: The Normal Methods t)f Teaeliing; An EnglisJi Grammar Conforming to Present Usage; Sehool Management; Manual of Rhetoric and Letter Writing; Exponenti.l System of Ontlining, and numerous contributions tooilucational journals.

HOLBROOK, Frederick, governor of Vermont, was born in East Windsor, Conn.. Ftb. 15, 1813; son of Dea. John and Sarah (Knowlton ) Holbrook; giamlson of John and Sybel (Lane) Holbroo':, and of Judge Luke and Sarah (Holland) Knowlton, early set- tlers of Vermont, and a descendant through his grandmother,

Sybel Lane, of Gov- ernor William Brad- ford. He was edu- cated at the public school, at Berkshire gymnasium, Pitts- field, Mass., 1831-32, and in Europe, 1833. He was married. Jan. 13, 1835, to Harriet, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Edwards) Goodhue, of Brattleboro, and had three sons, Franklin F., William C, and John. He was register of probate, 1848-50; state senator, 1849-50; a founder and pres- ident of the Vermont State Agricultural society, 1850-58; governor of Vermont, 1861-63, and as war governor Avas the first to obtain permis- sion to care for the sick and wounded soldiers iu hospitals within the boundaries of the state. In confidential relations and frequent correspond- ence with President Lincoln, Governor Holbrook wrote the President, earnestly suggesting that more men were needed to conquer the rebellion, and that an immediate call should be made for at least 500.000 three years' volunteers, the issu- ance thereof to be accompanied by the recom- mendation appended thereto of the governors of the loyal states that such call bo made, which endorsement was accordingly obtained by the government, either by wire from distant gov- ernors or personal interviews with those near by. In August, 1862, a call was made for 300.000 three jears' volunteers, and very soon after an- other call for 300,000 nine-months' men. This large addition to the Union forces greatly strengthened them, and proved the beginning of the end of the war. He succeeded his father as a trustee of the Vermont asylum under tlio Marsh bequests in 1838, and was elected president of the board in 1^54. He received the honorary degree of LL.l). from Norwich university in 1H99.