The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mbe Larison, , of Lambertville,N. J., president of the Hunterdon county historicalsociety, is of this family. Solomon Holcombe diedat Mount Airy, N. J., March 26, 1871. HOLCOMB
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mbe Larison, , of Lambertville,N. J., president of the Hunterdon county historicalsociety, is of this family. Solomon Holcombe diedat Mount Airy, N. J., March 26, 1871. HOLCOMBE, Theodore Isaac, clergyman ofthe Protestant Episcopal church, was born at Na-ples, N. Y., the son of Joseph and Julia BlanchardHolcombe, the sixth generation from Benajah Hol-combe, son of Thomas Holcombe, of Boston, was graduated from the Episcopal college andtheological seminary of Nashotah, Wis., in 1858, andimmediately began missionary work among the Min-nesota Indians. He was one of the founders of theFirst Episcopal church of St. Paul, Minn. In 1880he was a delegate to the general Episcopal conven-tion at New York, and since 1888 has been the finan-cial agent of The Episcopal clergymens retiringfund society for the United States. He has pub-lished a number of sermons and essays, the themeof which has principally been the Wrongs of theClergy. His daughter, Nellie, has published sev-eral 314 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA HOLCOMBE, Thomas, and wife, Elizabeth,emigrated from England, and his name appears infourth report of commissioners of Boston, pages 9,13, 396, as selling his houses and lands to RichardJoanes, on 13 Aug., 1635. He then moved toWindsor, Conn., and in 1639 was at Poquonnock,Conn. Rev. Joseph Twitchell, in his address onthe 350th anniversary of settlement of Hartford,says that Thomas Holcombe was one of the Wind-sor men, who helped form the first constitution ofthe state of Connecticut. Thomas Holcomhe andwife had a daughter Mary, who married Jos
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