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 HOLDICH

IIOLLADAY

fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences; patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; mem- ber of the Ornithologists' Union, the Society of Eastern Naturalists, the Society for Psychical Eesearch, the Harvard club and various other societies and clubs. He is the author of: The Florida Reef {\Sm)\ The American Faiuia (1882); History of the Atlantic Eight IF/mZe (1883); The ■Living World (1884); Stone Collars of Porto Rico (1885), and articles in magazines. He died in New York city. Feb. 28, 1888.

HOLDICH, Joseph, educator, was born in Thorney, Cambridgeshire, England, April 20, 1804. He studied in a private classical school in England, and in 1818 immigrated to America, where he completed his education and studied law. He joined the Philadelphia conference of the Metlioiist Episcopal church in 1822. and was appointed to Lancaster circuit. Pa. He was sta- tioned at Smyrna, Del., 1823; Newcastle, Del., 1821; Philadelphia, Pa., 1825; Elizabeth town, N.J.. 1827-28; Trenton, N.J., 1829-30; Union church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1831-32; New Bruns- wick, N.J., 1833. and Vestry street, N.Y., 1831. He was assistant professor of moral science and belles lettres in Wesleyan university, 1835-36, and full professor, 1836-49. He was made correspoud- ing secretaiy of the American Bible society in 1849 and in 1859 visited Europe on behalf of that organization, travelling in England, France, Germany and Switzerland. In 1878, on account of loss of sight, he resignel his secretaryship. He was delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1840, 1848. 1852 and 1860. He was married, April 9, 1829, to Lydia Austin Kollock, of Elizabethtown, N.J. He received from the College of New Jersey the degree of A.M. in 1828, and from La Grange college. Alabama, that of D.D. in 1843. In 1848 he was a member of the committee to revise the cathechism of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is the author of: Questions on the Historical Parts of the Old Testament (1832); The Wesleyan Student (1833); The Life of A. H. Hurd (1839); The Life of Wilbur Fisk, D.D. (1842). He died inMon-i-^town. N.J.. April 10. 1893.

HOLLADAY, Alexander Quarles, educator, was born in Spottsylvania county, Va., 'Slay 8, 1839; son of the Hon. Alexander Richmond and Patsy Quarles (Poindexter) Holladay. and grandson of AValler and Huldah Fontaine (Lewis) Holladay, and of Judge William G. and Jane (Quarles) Poindexter. He prepared for college in the schools of Richmond, Va.; studied at the Universitj^ of Virginia, 1857- 59, and at the University of Berlin, 1859-61; served as a lieutenant in the Confederate army. 1861-65; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and practised in partnership with his father

in Richmond, Va., 1870-77. He served in the Virginia senate, 1871-75; was a teacher in Rich- mond for some years; was president of the Stone- wall Jackson institute, Abingdon, Va., 1881-84, and president of the Florida Agricultural col- lege, 1885-88. He organized and foruied the Nortli Carolina College of Agriculture and Me- chanic Arts in 1889, of which he was president until 1899, wlien he resigned and became pro- fessor emeritus. He was married, April 17, 1861, to Virginia Randolph Boiling, of Boiling Island, James River. Va., and had five children: Mary Stuart, who married the Rev. Peyton Harrison Hoge, D.D. (q.v.); William Waller, who became a civil engineer in Wilmington, N.C.; Julip. Cabell, who married Dr. J. M. Pickell. professor of cliemistry at Shaw university, Raleigh, N.C.; Alexander Randolph, a civil engineer of Rich- mond. Va.. ^nd Charles Boiling, a bank clerk, also of Richmond. Professor Holladay received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Davidson college in 1895. He is the autlior of occasional addresses on educational and literary subjects, and of frequent contributions to the editorial columns of leading southern newspapers.

HOLLADAY, Alexander Richmond, represent- ativ.\ was born at '• Prospect Hill," Va., Sept. 18, 1811: son of Waller and Huldah Fontaine (Lewis) Kolladay; grandson of Maj. Lewis and Elizabeth (Lewis) Littlepage Holladay, and of Col. Zachary and Ann Overton (Terrill) Lewis; grea'.-grar> .ison of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lewis) Ho'laday, and greaf-^-grandson of Capt. John HoUadaj, who settled in Spottsylvania colony, Va., in 1702, a son of John Holladay, Esq., of Yard House, Middlesex county. England. He prepared for college under Jolm Lewis, of Llan- golk-n, and entered the University of Virginia in 1833. He was married in 1837 to Patsy Quarles, daughter of Judge William G. and Jane (Quarles) Poindexter. He practised law first in Spottsyl- vania county, which county he represented for several years in the general assembly of Virginia, from wiiich bod}' he declined an election to the U.S. senate in 1846. Later he practised in Rich- mond with his son, Alexander Quarles Holladay; was a representative in the 31st and 32d con- gresses, 1849-53, serving as chairman of the com- mittee on expenditures in the navy department during the 31st congress, and was president of the Virginia board of public works, 1857-65. He died in Richmond, Va.. Jan. 29, 1877.

H0LL.4DAV, Waller, educator, was born in Oovoomiah. Persia, April 7, 1810; son of the Rev. Albert Lewis and Anne Young (Minor) Holladay, and grandson of Waller and Huldah Fontaine TLewis) Holladay and of James O. and (Tomkins) Minor. He was a lineal de- scendant of Zacliary Lewis, who emigrated from