HOLLADAY, Col. Alexander Quarles LLD

1839 - 1909  (69 years)

• Name	HOLLADAY, Alexander Quarles
  Prefix	Col.
  Suffix	LLD
  Birth	8 May 1839	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	9 Aug 1860	Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [2]
  	Law Student
  Death	13 Mar 1909	Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States   [1]
  	Col. A.Q. Holladay Dies in Raleigh Well-Known Virginian Stricken with Pneumonia About Two Days Ago Colonel Alexander Quarles Holladay, who was sidely known throughout Virginia, died at 11:45 o'clock last night in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Pickel [sic], Raleight, N.C. where he had spend most of the winter. Death was due to pneumonia, which attacked him about two days ago. He had, however, previously been in failing health, and there was little hope from the first. His two sons, William and A. Randolph Holladay, were at the bedside when the end came. Colonel Holladay was particularly well known in Richmond, where he had a hose of friends. He had spent a portion of his latter years on his farm in Nelso county, and he was also, very popularly known in the State. He was about seventy years of age. He was the son of Alexander Holladay, who was a well known lawyer here, and after studying law at the University of Virginia, he entered the firm of his father, Holladay, White & Holladay afterwards Holladay & Holladay. Part of his educatin was also gained in Berlin. He was a counside of Judge Holladay. He was president of Lake City Univeriwyt, Florida, and afterwards of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of North Carolina. He married Mis Virginia Randolph Bolling, sister of Charles E. and Thomas Bolling. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Peyton Hodge, of Kentucky, and Mrs. James Pickel [sic] of Richmond, and by three sons, William Walter Holladay, of Wilmington, N.C.; A.R. Holladay of Richmond, and Charles Bolling Holladay, of Wilmington, Del. The funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Source: The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia, 14 March, 1909, Page 11
  Burial	Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States   [1, 3]
  	Address: Oakwood Cemetery
  Person ID	I8132	Pickel_Bartlett
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	HOLLADAY, Alexander Richmond,   b. 18 Sep 1811, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States d. 29 Jan 1877, Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, United States (Age 65 years)
  Mother	POINDEXTER, Patsee Quarles,   b. 17 Sep 1816, Virginia, United States d. Jul 1902, Virginia, United States (Age 85 years)
  Residence	27 Nov 1850	Easterm District, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States   [4]
  	Lawyer
  Residence	6 Aug 1860	Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [2]
  	Lawyer
  	Listed as A. H. Holladay and Patsy Q. Holladay
  Residence	26 Jun 1870	Brookland, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [5]
  	Lawyer
  Family ID	F3991	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BOLLING, Virginia Randolph,   b. Abt 1839, Goochland County, Virginia, United States d. 1899, Virginia (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	17 Apr 1861	Virginia   [6]
  Residence	26 Jun 1870	Brookland, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [7]
  	Lawyer
  Residence	7 Jun 1880	Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States   [8]
  	Assistant Postmaster
  	Address: 615 East Marshall Street
  Children	1. HOLLADAY, Mary S.,   b. 3 Feb 1862, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown   2. HOLLADAY, William Waller,   b. 7 Sep 1865, Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States d. 18 Nov 1940, Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States (Age 75 years)   3. HOLLADAY, Julia Cabell,   b. 12 Oct 1867, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina d. 11 May 1961, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States (Age 93 years)   4. HOLLADAY, Alexander Randolph,   b. 12 Mar 1870, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown   5. HOLLADAY, Charles,   b. 12 Feb 1873, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2342	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2022

  
  

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  Col. Alexander Quarles Holladay, LLD 1839 - 1909

  
  

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  The son of Alexander Richmond Holladay (1811–1877), a lawyer and former U. S. Representative, by his marriage to Patsy Quarles Poindexter, Holladay was educated, like his father, at the University of Virginia (1857–1859) and then at the University of Berlin (1859–1861). While at Charlottesville, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.The Beta Theta Pi: Volume 23 (1895), p. 468: "After graduation, he studied at the University of Berlin." On April 17, 1861, a few days after the outbreak of the Civil War, Holladay married Virginia Randolph Bolling, a daughter of Thomas Bolling of Bolling Island, in the upper James River in Goochland County, Virginia.Sarah Travers Lewis, Scott Anderson, Lewises, Meriwethers, and their kin (Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984), p. 377 On May 25, 1861, he was commissioned into the Confederate States Army. The Holladays' daughter Mary Stuart Holladay was born on February 3, 1862, their son William Waller Holladay on September 7, 1864, and their daughter Julia Cabell Holladay in 1868. They had two further sons, Alexander Randolph Holladay (March 12, 1870), and Charles Bolling Holladay, (February 12, 1873). During the four years of the Civil War, Holladay rose from Second Lieutenant to Colonel. After the war ended in 1865, he studied law and went on to practice in partnership with his father between 1870 and 1877 (Holladay, White and Holladay). During that period, he served in the Virginia State Senate as senator for Richmond, from 1871 to 1875. He taught in Richmond for a while before becoming president of the Stonewall Jackson Institute in Abingdon, Virginia. From 1885 to 1888, he was president of the Florida State Agricultural College in Lake City, Florida. In 1889, Holladay was appointed as the first president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, which later developed into the North Carolina State University. After his retirement in 1899, Holladay spent time in Delaware, New York, and Virginia until failing health brought him back to his daughter's home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he lived until he died and was buried at Raleigh in 1909. ---------- Source: Wikipedia

  
  

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  [S369] Wikipedia. [S316] 1860 Federal Census, Western Subdivision, Henrico, Virginia, Page 71, Dwelling 559. [S109] Find-a-Grave website, MEMORIAL ID: 65651165. [S76] 1850 Federal Census, Eastern District, Spotsylvania, Virginia, Pg 74 of 109, Dwelling 514. [S69] 1870 Federal Census, Brookland, Henrico, Virginia, Page 30 Family 235. [S102] Cer, Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. [S69] 1870 Federal Census, Brookland, Henrico, Virginia, Page 30 Family 236. [S70] 1880 Federal Census, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia ED 83 Page 36 Dwelling 308.