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 . t Methodof Raising Wheat, he received in 1790, fromThe Massachusetts Society for the Promotion ofAgriculture, a silver tankard of the value of thir-teen pounds sterling. His only p
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 . t Methodof Raising Wheat, he received in 1790, fromThe Massachusetts Society for the Promotion ofAgriculture, a silver tankard of the value of thir-teen pounds sterling. His only printed sermons weretwo, in opposition to the war of 1813. He fittedmany youths for college; among others were Mason Harris, of Dorchester, Mass.; Bayley, of Ward, Mass.; Rev. Thomas Moore;Rev. Pierson Thurston of Somersworth, N. H.; Kendall, of Plymouth, Mass.; BartholomewBrown, lawyer and musician, of Bridgewater, Mass.;Rev. Hosea Hildreth, of Gloucester, Maine (thefather of Richard Hildreth, historian); Amos Wil-lard Rugg; Nathaniel Wright, lawyer, of Lowell,Mass.; Nahum Houghton Groce; Solomon Jewett;Mark Moore; Martin Moore; Ezekiel Hildreth andAbel Fletcher were prepared for college by Holcombe. He educated his adopted son,Capt. Augustine Holcombe, who was a son of hisbrother, Nahum Holcombe. He was an early ad-vocate of the best education of women, and took a. deep interest in the common schools of his and his adopted son were pioneeis in the bestmethods of agriculture and horticulture in Mas-sachusetts. He died Oct. 18, 1824, aged seventy-five. HOLCOMBE, Silas Wright, lawyer, was bornat Willsborough, Essex county, N. Y.,Dec. 8, 1842,the son of Diodorus Sicculus Holcombe, who was adescendant, in the sixth generation, of Thomas Hol-combe, of Boston, 1630. He was graduated fromDartmouth college in 1864, and from the law schoolat Albany, N. Y., in 1866, and subsequently becamea member of the law firm of Fitzgerald & Co
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