Frederick Holbrook

Birth Date

1813-02-15

Death Date

1909-04-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Washington County, Vermont, soldier, politician and farmer. East Windsor, Connecticut, native. Son of John Holbrook and Sarah Knowlton Holbrook. Married to Harriet Goodhue Holbrook in Windham County, Vermont, on January 13, 1835. Father of Franklin F. Holbrook, William C. Holbrook, and John Holbrook. Captain of state militia. Register of probate for Marlboro District in 1847. Vermont state senator from Windham County in 1849 and 1850. Farmer in Windham County in 1850. President of the Vermont State Agricultural Society from 1850 to 1859. Agriculturalist in Windham County in 1860. Employed Betsy Bingham as a domestic servant and Webster Tenny as a farm laborer in Windham County in 1860. Republican governor of Vermont from October 11, 1861, to October 9, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Vermont, Windham County, Brattleboro, p. 172A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Vermont, Windham County, Brattleboro, p. 192.
Jacob G. Ullery, Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, part 2, (Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894), 197–200.
"Gov. Frederick Holbrook", National Governors Association, https://www.nga.org/governor/frederick-holbrook/ (accessed May 5, 2021).
Find A Grave, "Frederick Holbrook (1813-1909)," Memorial #13080446, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13080446 (accessed May 5, 2021).

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