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HOLLOWAY
HOLMAN

" Thomas a Becket, a Tragedy, and Other Poems " (Boston, 1866). After his death appeared " Kinley Hollow," a novel (New York, 1882).


HOLLOWAY, David P., commissioner of pat- ents, b. in Wavnesville, Warren co., Ohio, 6 Dec, 1809 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 10 Sept., 1883. He removed with his parents to Cincinnati in 1813, and learned the printer's trade at Richmond, Ind. In 1833 he purchased "The Richmond Palla- dium," and was its editor for several years. He was a member of the state legislature in 1843, of the state senate in 1844-'53, and was then elected a representative in congress, serving from 3 Dec, 1855, till 3 March, 1857. He was commissioner of patents from 28 March, 1861, till 17 Aug., 1865.


HOLLOWAY, James Montgomery, physician, b. in Lexington, Ky., 14 July, 1834. He was edu • cated at Oakland college, Miss., and Centre college, Danville, Ky., and in 1857 was graduated in medi- cine at the University of Louisiana. He practised at Vernon, Madison co., Miss., and in 1861-5 served as a surgeon in the Confederate army. In 1863 he was senior medical officer, and appointed president of the medical examining board of all the hospitals in Richmond. He was professor of anatomy in Louisville college, Ky., in 1865-'6, of physiology in 1866-7, in 1867-70 held the chair of physiology and medical jurisprudence in the Kentucky school of medicine, from 1870 till 1874 was professor of physiology and clinical surgery in Louisville medi- cal college, and from 1874 till 1877 professor of surgery in the hospital college of the medical de- Eartment of Central university, Kentucky. He as written much for medical periodicals.


HOLLOWAY, Laura Carter, author, b. in Nashville, Tenn., 22 Aug., 1848. She was graduated at the Nashville female seminary in 1862, since that time has continually engaged in literary work, has edited the “Home Library Magazine” in Chicago, Ill., and for twelve years was associate editor of the “Brooklyn Daily Eagle.” In 1862 she married Junius B. Holloway, of Richmond, Ky. Her published works include “Ladies of the White House” (New York, 1870); “An Hour with Charlotte Bronté” (1883); “The Hearthstone, or Life at Home” (Philadelphia, 1883); “The Mothers of Great Men and Women” (New York, 1884); “The Home in Poetry” (1884); “Chinese Gordon” (1885); “Howard, the Christian Hero” (1885); “Adelaide Neilson, a Biography” (1885); and “The Buddhist Diet Book” (1887).


HOLLS, George Charles, clergyman, b. in Darmstadt, Germany, 26 Feb., 1824; d. in Mount Vernon, N. Y., 12 Aug., 1886. He was educated at Darmstadt and at Strasburg, and at an early age he became assistant to Dr. Wichern, founder of the “Rauhe Haus,” near Hamburg. When he was twenty-five years of age he was placed in charge of the government charities in the province of Upper Silesia, and while holding this office organized the work of relief during the famine of 1848-'9 in that province, having at one time 4,000 destitute children under his charge. He resigned in 1851 and came to this country, where, after teaching for several years in Ohio, he was appointed superintendent of the Lutheran orphan farm-school at Zelienople, Pa. He remained there until 1866, when he took charge of the newly founded Wartburg farm-school near Mount Vernon, N. Y. In August, 1885, failing health compelled him to resign, and he afterward lived in retirement till his death.


HOLLY, James Theodore Augustus, P. E. bishop of Hayti, b. in Washington, D. C., 3 Oct., 1829. His parents were colored and Roman Catholics. His great-great-grandfather was an English- man named Holly, while his mother was descended from an Irishwoman named Butler. He was educated at public and private schools and by tutors in Washington, New York city, Buffalo, and Detroit. In 1851 he withdrew from the Roman Catholic and entered the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1852-'3 he was associate editor of “The Voice of the Fugitive,” a weekly paper, published at Windsor, Canada West, and in 1854 was principal of a public school in Buffalo. He studied theology, and was ordered deacon, 17 June, 1855, and ordained presbyter, 2 Jan., 1856. He was rector of St. Luke's church, New Haven, Conn., from 1856 till 1861, when he was sent to Hayti as a missionary. He served as consul for Liberia at Port-au-Prince from 1864 till 1874, in which year he was made missionary bishop of Hayti by the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1878 Bishop Holly went to England as a delegate to the Lambeth conference. He received the degree of D. D. from Howard university, Washington, D. C., in 1874, and that of LL. D. from Liberia college, Monrovia, in 1882. He has contributed to the “Church,” the “Church Eclectic,” and the “African Methodist Church” reviews.


HOLM, John Campanius, Swedish clergyman, b. in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1601; d. there, 17 Sept., 1683. He sailed with Gov. Printz from Gottenburg, 1 Nov., 1642, and arrived at Fort Christina, on the Delaware, 15 Feb., 1643, where he entered on his duties as chaplain to the Swedish colony, and continued to officiate in this capacity during six years. Prior to his coming he had been preceptor of the orphans' seminary in Stockholm. Under his ministry in the colony a church was erected at Tinicum, the seat of government, and was consecrated by him, 4 Sept., 1646. This was the first house of worship that was erected within the limits of Pennsylvania. He manifested a deep interest in the welfare of the Indians, and performed missionary work among them. They visited his house and came to hear him preach. To further his work he applied himself to learning their language, into which he here began the task of translating Luther's catechism. His labors in New Sweden ended in May, 1648, when he sailed for home in the ship “Swan,” arriving at Stockholm on 4 July following. On his return to Sweden he was made chaplain to the admiralty, and afterward rector at Upland, where he completed his translation of the catechism into the language of the Delawares, or Lenni-Lenape, which is probably the first translation of any work into an Indian language of this country. It was published in the Delaware and Swedish languages (Stockholm, 1696), together with a vocabulary, a copy of which is in the library of the American philosophical society. In the translation he accommodates the Lord's Prayer to the circumstances of the Indians by substituting for “daily bread” “a plentiful supply of venison and corn.” He was buried in the church of Frost Hults, where there is a monument to his memory. — His grandson, Thomas Campanius, published a history of New Sweden, known as “Campanius's,” which is largely made up, it is said, of data that were obtained from his grandfather, and partly, too, it is supposed, from information that was given verbally by him to the author.


HOLMAN, Jesse Lynch, jurist, b. in Danville, Ky., 24 Oct., 1784; d. in Aurora, Ind., 28 March, 1842. His father was killed by the Indians while defending a block-house in which he had sought shelter with his family. With limited opportunities of education the son displayed in early life an interest in literary pursuits, and before he reached