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 . e conventionof South Carolina for ratifyingthe constitution of the UnitedStates; was one of the found-ers of the Savannah femaleseminary; was editor of theGeorgia Analytical Repos-
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 . e conventionof South Carolina for ratifyingthe constitution of the UnitedStates; was one of the found-ers of the Savannah femaleseminary; was editor of theGeorgia Analytical Repos-itory; was instiTimental inestablishing the Baptist acad-emy at Enon in 1804, andin 1806 the Georgia Baptistmissionary society. In 1810he accepted a call to the First Baptist church inPhiladelphia, where he remained until his 1813 he published the First Fraits, a series ofletters written to his brother. Rev. James Holcombe,pastor of the Baptist church at Beach Island, S. university conferred on him the degree Henry Holcombe died at Philadelphia, Pa.,May 23, 1836. Dr. Holcombe was 6 feet 2 inchesin height. HOLCOMBE, Hosea, clergyman, was born inUnion District, S. C, July 30, 1780, the son of Ho-sea H. and Phebe Smith Holcombe. He was orig-inally a planter, but was converted to the Baptistfaith and subsequently became a clergyman, and in1801 was licensed to preach in South Carolina. Af-. 312 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA ter ten years he removed to North Carolina, and af-terward to Jonestown, Ala. In 1815 he publisheda collection of hymns, and in 1823 Lectures onPrimitive Theology; in 1836 Anti-Mission Princi-ples Exposed, and in 1840, the History of theAlabama Baptists. His son, William Hosea Hol-combe, was a clergyman. His grandson, HenryCannon Holcombe, a banker, resides in Sherman,Tex. Hosea died July 20, 1841. HOLCOMBE, Hugh. Hamilton, clergyman,was born at Gran by. Conn., in 1835, son of LemuelCicero Holcombe, who was a teacher and had amonghis pupils Joh
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