Silas A. Holcomb
Politician
1858 – 1920
Who was Silas A. Holcomb?
Silas Alexander Holcomb was a Nebraska lawyer and politician elected as the ninth Governor of Nebraska and serving from 1895 to 1899. He ran under a fusion ticket between the Populist and the Democratic Party.
Holcomb was born in Gibson County, Indiana, helped on the family farm and went to the local schools in winter. At age seventeen, he began to teach school. After his father's death in 1878, but in 1879, he moved with mother and siblings to Hamilton County, Nebraska. He worked in Thummel & Platt law office in Grand Island and was admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1882. On April 13, 1882, he married Martha Alice Brinson in Mills County, Iowa. They moved to Broken Bow where he farmed and practiced law.
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- Born
- Aug 25, 1858
Gibson County - Also known as
- Silas Holcomb
- Judge Silas A. Holcomb
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Nebraska
- Died
- Apr 25, 1920
Broken Bow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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