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 . ses on Commercial Law; Di-fest on the Decisions of the Supreme Court of theFnited States; Merchants Book of Letters; Literature and Letters. He was a member of theVirginia historic
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 . ses on Commercial Law; Di-fest on the Decisions of the Supreme Court of theFnited States; Merchants Book of Letters; Literature and Letters. He was a member of theVirginia historical society, and a frequent contrib-utor to the leading periodicals of his time. He diedat Capon Springs, Va., Aug. 35, 1873. HOLCOMBE, William Henry, physician,wasborn at Lynchburg, Va., May 25, 1825, brother ofJames Philemon Holcombe. Hewas graduated from the medicaldepartment of the University ofPennsylvania in 1847. He sub-sequently became a convert tohomoeopathy, and in 187^75was president of the Americaninstitute of homoeopathy. He isan author of repute, and, be-sides, a constant writer for gen-eral and Swedenborgian lit-erature. He has published:Our Children in Heaven;The Scientific Basis of Homoe-opathy; Poems; The LostTruths of Christianity; TheNew Life, etc. Dr. Holcombesliterary style is good, and hewrites with an earnestness andforce that show a deep convic-tion of the trath of the views he ^?/^t7ai*>.utt.^ HOLCOMBE, John Hite Lee, lieutenant U. , was born at Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 13, 1856, the son of Royall and Matilda Tabb Holcombe, adescendant, in the fifth generation, from John Hol-combe and Miss Grimes, of King and Queen countyin 1730. He was graduated from Annapolis in 1880,and was ensign in the United States expedition toChina and the East, and was subsequently orderedto Central America. He left the Pacific coast in1893, and is now at Washington navy yard. HOLCOMBE, John Marshall, underwriter,was born at Hartford, Conn., June 8, 1848, the son
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