Silas W. Holcomb
Silas Wright Holcomb was born December 8, 1843, at
Willsborough, New York. He commenced his classical education at the Academy in Champlain, New York, and entered
college at the beginning of Fall term, August 24, 1860. He left us in the summer of 1861.
He began the study of law in February, 1863, reading in the office of Judge Peter S.
Palmer and Hon. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburgh, New York. He was admitted to the bar
of New York, at Albany, New York, in 1866, and immediately commenced the practice of
his profession at Plattsburgh, New York. He remained here one year, when he went to New
York City, arid practised for one year. He then removed to Plattsburgh in January, 1868,
and became the junior member of the legal firm of Palmer, Weed & Holcomb. He was
admitted to the bar of the United States, at Canandaigua, New York, in 1869. He continued
a member of the above firm at Plattsburgh until January 1, 1876, when he removed to New
York City, where he has remained up to the present time. He became connected with the
Erie Railway in a legal capacity in June, 1881.
His religious preference is for the Roman Catholic Church. In politics, he is a
Democrat.
He was married October 29, 1868, to Miss Elizabeth Vilas, of Ogdensburg, New
York. They have had two children: Charles Spencer, born October 28, 1869, and Alden
Vilas, born January 14, 1873.
Alden Vilas died August 12, 1873.
He adds:
"Had not it been, some in the world
I loved, and some who in the world
Had loved me, my pen must say
Life had disclosed but night, no day;
And far beyond my soundings lay
What was of value in the world."
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
|
