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Frederick Holbrook (Washington County, Vermont, governor)

b. 1813-02-15 d. 1909-04-28

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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).

Citation

Holbrook, Frederick. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201542 (November 12, 2026).

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