The following was provided by the creator of this memorial and will be incorporated later in an expanded biography.
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Reverend John Calvin Holbrook born Jan. 7, 1808 at Brattleboro, Windham, VT. He married 1st in 1837 Cynthia Tuttle,who died in 1841 at Dubuque, Iowa. He married 2nd to Ann Louisa Clark. He and Ann adopted two young girls, sisters Martha Washington Masterton born July 3, 1853, N.Y. and Ella Masterton born October 28, 1854, N.Y. One of them, Martha, met and married Edwin B. Noble (1872) while her adopted father, Reverend John C. Holbrook, was pastor of the Stockton Congregational Church (1870-1873; Stockton, California).
Reverend John C. Holbrook retired in 1881 at the age of 73; he had completed nine years as the First Secretary of the New York State Home Missionary Society at Syracuse, New York. He and his wife Ann returned to Stockton and lived the remaining years of their lives with their adopted daughter Martha and her husband Edwin B. Noble.
The following was provided by the creator of this memorial and will be incorporated later in an expanded biography.
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Reverend John Calvin Holbrook born Jan. 7, 1808 at Brattleboro, Windham, VT. He married 1st in 1837 Cynthia Tuttle,who died in 1841 at Dubuque, Iowa. He married 2nd to Ann Louisa Clark. He and Ann adopted two young girls, sisters Martha Washington Masterton born July 3, 1853, N.Y. and Ella Masterton born October 28, 1854, N.Y. One of them, Martha, met and married Edwin B. Noble (1872) while her adopted father, Reverend John C. Holbrook, was pastor of the Stockton Congregational Church (1870-1873; Stockton, California).
Reverend John C. Holbrook retired in 1881 at the age of 73; he had completed nine years as the First Secretary of the New York State Home Missionary Society at Syracuse, New York. He and his wife Ann returned to Stockton and lived the remaining years of their lives with their adopted daughter Martha and her husband Edwin B. Noble.
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Rev. J. C. Holbrook D.D.
VT. 1808 - Calif. 1900
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