Calvin Britton Holbrook left New Hampshire in the Spring of 1849 went to Richwood, Ohio. In 1850 he married Mary Ann Gearhart, daughter of Isaac and Ann Shafer Gearhart, by Rev. William Hamilton. Mary Ann and Calvin went to New Haven, Gratiot Co., Michigan a couple of years after they were married. Calvin was Justice of Peace in New Haven Twp., in 1857. (History of Gratiot County, New Haven Elections, page 381.)
The published journals of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church show his admission as a preacher on trial in 1857 and his appointments as a minister. In a letter published many years later in the Michigan Christian Advocate (November 30, 1921, page 3), he states that: "Sixty-four years ago I was on what was then called Gratiot circuit. They may now call it Flat River. My work then included Gratiot and Isabella counties, and was most of it a wilderness at that period. St. Louis and Alma were small towns then. I went to that circuit in the fall of 1857, and left in the fall of 1859. While it was a very new country then, now it is covered with prosperous farms, and -dotted over with towns and cities, and railroads running in every direction. At the Salt River preaching place there were only a school and scattered dwellings. Now there is a large and prosperous city (Greenville?) there. [Actually, Salt River became Shepherd] What changes time brings about! When I left and was appointed to DeWitt circuit, A. L. Crittenden was my colleague."
In September of 1866, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Ohio to Iowa, possible Lucas County, where Calvin's sister, Sarah Dorinda and her husband Alvary Boylan lived.
From: Steph McGrath: 1922/1922 articles in Adams County, Iowa Free Press: Calvin and Mary Ann Holbrook came to Adams county, Iowa in 1865, residing on a farm about 4 miles north of Corning. Calvin served as pastor on the Quincy and Brooks charge of the ME churches. In about 1873 they moved to Clay City, Nebraska. Adams County is where his brother Joseph R. Holbrook and family lived.
In 1873 Calvin moved his family from Iowa to Nebraska.
In the spring of 1882, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Nebraska to Pleasant Lake, North Dakota with their son Calvin Luther Holbrook and his family and their daughter, Emeline Holbrook and her husband Charles Mendenhall. (See story by Effie Holbrook Geibel). Calvin was the first Postmaster of Pleasant Lake, North Dakota.
Between 1907 and 1910 Calvin moved to Wendell, Idaho with wife Mary Ann and Son Liston Mack and his wife Alice Ann. They both died in Wendell, Gooding Co., Idaho and are buried at the Wendell Cemetery.
Military:
Name: Calvin B. Holbrook
Company: D
Unit: 11 Ohio Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Q. M. Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Q. M. Sergeant
Allegiance: Union
Calvin enlisted in the Union Army, the 11th Ohio Cavalry, Company G, on June 12, 1863 at a rank of Sergeant. Enlisted with him were his brother in-laws, Serrin Jerome Finch and George Gearhart. Civil War: Enlisted at Springfield, OH as a Private, into the 11th Ohio Calvary, Company G, Rank In and Out: Quarter Master Sgt. Assigned to Indian warfare.
The published journals of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church show his admission as a preacher on trial in 1857 and his appointments as a minister. In a letter published many years later in the Michigan Christian Advocate (November 30, 1921, page 3), he states that: "Sixty-four years ago I was on what was then called Gratiot circuit. They may now call it Flat River. My work then included Gratiot and Isabella counties, and was most of it a wilderness at that period. St. Louis and Alma were small towns then. I went to that circuit in the fall of 1857, and left in the fall of 1859. While it was a very new country then, now it is covered with prosperous farms, and -dotted over with towns and cities, and railroads running in every direction. At the Salt River preaching place there were only a school and scattered dwellings. Now there is a large and prosperous city (Greenville?) there. [Actually, Salt River became Shepherd] What changes time brings about! When I left and was appointed to DeWitt circuit, A. L. Crittenden was my colleague."
In September of 1866, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Ohio to Iowa, possible Lucas County, where Calvin's sister, Sarah Dorinda and her husband Alvary Boylan lived.
From: Steph McGrath: 1922/1922 articles in Adams County, Iowa Free Press: Calvin and Mary Ann Holbrook came to Adams county, Iowa in 1865, residing on a farm about 4 miles north of Corning. Calvin served as pastor on the Quincy and Brooks charge of the ME churches. In about 1873 they moved to Clay City, Nebraska. Adams County is where his brother Joseph R. Holbrook and family lived.
In 1873 Calvin moved his family from Iowa to Nebraska.
In the spring of 1882, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Nebraska to Pleasant Lake, North Dakota with their son Calvin Luther Holbrook and his family and their daughter, Emeline Holbrook and her husband Charles Mendenhall. (See story by Effie Holbrook Geibel). Calvin was the first Postmaster of Pleasant Lake, North Dakota.
Between 1907 and 1910 Calvin moved to Wendell, Idaho with wife Mary Ann and Son Liston Mack and his wife Alice Ann. They both died in Wendell, Gooding Co., Idaho and are buried at the Wendell Cemetery.
Military:
Name: Calvin B. Holbrook
Company: D
Unit: 11 Ohio Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Q. M. Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Q. M. Sergeant
Allegiance: Union
Calvin enlisted in the Union Army, the 11th Ohio Cavalry, Company G, on June 12, 1863 at a rank of Sergeant. Enlisted with him were his brother in-laws, Serrin Jerome Finch and George Gearhart. Civil War: Enlisted at Springfield, OH as a Private, into the 11th Ohio Calvary, Company G, Rank In and Out: Quarter Master Sgt. Assigned to Indian warfare.
Calvin Britton Holbrook left New Hampshire in the Spring of 1849 went to Richwood, Ohio. In 1850 he married Mary Ann Gearhart, daughter of Isaac and Ann Shafer Gearhart, by Rev. William Hamilton. Mary Ann and Calvin went to New Haven, Gratiot Co., Michigan a couple of years after they were married. Calvin was Justice of Peace in New Haven Twp., in 1857. (History of Gratiot County, New Haven Elections, page 381.)
The published journals of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church show his admission as a preacher on trial in 1857 and his appointments as a minister. In a letter published many years later in the Michigan Christian Advocate (November 30, 1921, page 3), he states that: "Sixty-four years ago I was on what was then called Gratiot circuit. They may now call it Flat River. My work then included Gratiot and Isabella counties, and was most of it a wilderness at that period. St. Louis and Alma were small towns then. I went to that circuit in the fall of 1857, and left in the fall of 1859. While it was a very new country then, now it is covered with prosperous farms, and -dotted over with towns and cities, and railroads running in every direction. At the Salt River preaching place there were only a school and scattered dwellings. Now there is a large and prosperous city (Greenville?) there. [Actually, Salt River became Shepherd] What changes time brings about! When I left and was appointed to DeWitt circuit, A. L. Crittenden was my colleague."
In September of 1866, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Ohio to Iowa, possible Lucas County, where Calvin's sister, Sarah Dorinda and her husband Alvary Boylan lived.
From: Steph McGrath: 1922/1922 articles in Adams County, Iowa Free Press: Calvin and Mary Ann Holbrook came to Adams county, Iowa in 1865, residing on a farm about 4 miles north of Corning. Calvin served as pastor on the Quincy and Brooks charge of the ME churches. In about 1873 they moved to Clay City, Nebraska. Adams County is where his brother Joseph R. Holbrook and family lived.
In 1873 Calvin moved his family from Iowa to Nebraska.
In the spring of 1882, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Nebraska to Pleasant Lake, North Dakota with their son Calvin Luther Holbrook and his family and their daughter, Emeline Holbrook and her husband Charles Mendenhall. (See story by Effie Holbrook Geibel). Calvin was the first Postmaster of Pleasant Lake, North Dakota.
Between 1907 and 1910 Calvin moved to Wendell, Idaho with wife Mary Ann and Son Liston Mack and his wife Alice Ann. They both died in Wendell, Gooding Co., Idaho and are buried at the Wendell Cemetery.
Military:
Name: Calvin B. Holbrook
Company: D
Unit: 11 Ohio Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Q. M. Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Q. M. Sergeant
Allegiance: Union
Calvin enlisted in the Union Army, the 11th Ohio Cavalry, Company G, on June 12, 1863 at a rank of Sergeant. Enlisted with him were his brother in-laws, Serrin Jerome Finch and George Gearhart. Civil War: Enlisted at Springfield, OH as a Private, into the 11th Ohio Calvary, Company G, Rank In and Out: Quarter Master Sgt. Assigned to Indian warfare.
The published journals of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church show his admission as a preacher on trial in 1857 and his appointments as a minister. In a letter published many years later in the Michigan Christian Advocate (November 30, 1921, page 3), he states that: "Sixty-four years ago I was on what was then called Gratiot circuit. They may now call it Flat River. My work then included Gratiot and Isabella counties, and was most of it a wilderness at that period. St. Louis and Alma were small towns then. I went to that circuit in the fall of 1857, and left in the fall of 1859. While it was a very new country then, now it is covered with prosperous farms, and -dotted over with towns and cities, and railroads running in every direction. At the Salt River preaching place there were only a school and scattered dwellings. Now there is a large and prosperous city (Greenville?) there. [Actually, Salt River became Shepherd] What changes time brings about! When I left and was appointed to DeWitt circuit, A. L. Crittenden was my colleague."
In September of 1866, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Ohio to Iowa, possible Lucas County, where Calvin's sister, Sarah Dorinda and her husband Alvary Boylan lived.
From: Steph McGrath: 1922/1922 articles in Adams County, Iowa Free Press: Calvin and Mary Ann Holbrook came to Adams county, Iowa in 1865, residing on a farm about 4 miles north of Corning. Calvin served as pastor on the Quincy and Brooks charge of the ME churches. In about 1873 they moved to Clay City, Nebraska. Adams County is where his brother Joseph R. Holbrook and family lived.
In 1873 Calvin moved his family from Iowa to Nebraska.
In the spring of 1882, Calvin and Mary Ann moved from Nebraska to Pleasant Lake, North Dakota with their son Calvin Luther Holbrook and his family and their daughter, Emeline Holbrook and her husband Charles Mendenhall. (See story by Effie Holbrook Geibel). Calvin was the first Postmaster of Pleasant Lake, North Dakota.
Between 1907 and 1910 Calvin moved to Wendell, Idaho with wife Mary Ann and Son Liston Mack and his wife Alice Ann. They both died in Wendell, Gooding Co., Idaho and are buried at the Wendell Cemetery.
Military:
Name: Calvin B. Holbrook
Company: D
Unit: 11 Ohio Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Q. M. Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Q. M. Sergeant
Allegiance: Union
Calvin enlisted in the Union Army, the 11th Ohio Cavalry, Company G, on June 12, 1863 at a rank of Sergeant. Enlisted with him were his brother in-laws, Serrin Jerome Finch and George Gearhart. Civil War: Enlisted at Springfield, OH as a Private, into the 11th Ohio Calvary, Company G, Rank In and Out: Quarter Master Sgt. Assigned to Indian warfare.
Family Members
Siblings
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Elizabeth A Holbrook Savacool
1824–1902
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William Luther Holbrook
1825–1878
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Harriet Marie Holbrook Avery
1827–1907
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Joseph R Holbrook
1831–1905
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Sarah Dorinda Holbrook Boylan
1834–1903
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George Henry Holbrook
1838–1924
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James E Holbrook
1840–1906
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Mary Jane Holbrook Prather
1843–1907
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Augusta A. Holbrook Warrington
1845–1931
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