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Home Town Arkansaw, Wisconsin
Last Address Washington, DC
Date of Passing Jul 18, 1932
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
General Holbrook was born July 23, 1860 at Arkansas. He entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1881 and four years later was graduated as second lieutenant in the First United States Cavalry. He saw frontier service at Western and Mexican border posts of the Army. In 1891, he became aide de camp to General David S. Stanley, U.S.A. Mrs. Holbrook, whom General Holbrook married in 1902 was a daughter of General Stanley.
When the Spanish-American war began, he was sent to Cuba. Later as a Major in the Thirty-eighth United States infantry, he took part in quelling the Philippine insurrection. During 1901 and 1902, he was Civil Governor of the province of Antique Panay in the Philippines.
After the United States entered the World War, General Holbrook, then a Colonel of Cavalry, was promoted to Brigadier General and first command the 165th Infantry Brigade at Camp Sherman, Ohio. He was promoted to Major General April 16, 1918 and placed in command of the Army's Southern department and in charge of the Mexican border. Assigned to command the the Ninth Division on Sept. 26, 1918, he was preparing his command for over seas duty when the armistice was signed. When the division was demobilized in February, 1919, General Holbrook was placed in command of the Camp Grant demobilization center in Illinois.
General Holbrook received the Distinguished Service Medal for his firmness and tact in handling a threatening situation on the Mexican border while he was in command of the Southern Department during the World War, thereby materially improving relations between the United States and Mexico.
He was survived by his son Lieutenant W.A. Holbrook Jr., stationed at Fort Mammouth, New Jersey, three brothers, General Lucius R. Holbrook, U.S.A.,; Dr. J.S. Holbrook, Mankato, Minnesota and B.F. Holbrook, Conrath; and four sisters, Mrs. C.K. Averill and Mrs. J.W. Barber, Menomonie; Mrs. William Van Alst, Williston, North Dakota, and Mrs. George M. Galloway, Hood River, Oregon His first wife, the former, Miss Josephine Stanley, who died some years ago.
Funeral services were held at the chapel of Walter Reed hospital July 20 at 2 p.m., Colonel Julian E. Yates Chief of Chaplains officiating. Internment was at Arlington cemetery with full military honors.
Description The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple armed conflicts between European governments and colonists, and later American settlers or the United States government, and the native peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred across the North American continent from the time of earliest colonial settlements until 1924. In many cases, wars resulted from competition for resources and land ownership as Europeans and later Americans encroached onto territory which had been inhabited by Native Americans for the previous centuries. There was population pressure as settlers expanded their territory, generally pushing indigenous people northward and westward. Warfare and raiding also took place as a result of wars between European powers; in North America, these enlisted their Native American allies to help them conduct warfare against each other's settlements.
Many conflicts were local, involving disputes over land use, and some entailed cycles of reprisal. Particularly in later years, conflicts were spurred by ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, which held that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast on the North American continent. In the 1830s, the United States had a policy of Indian removal east of the Mississippi River, which was a planned, large-scale removal of indigenous peoples from the areas where Americans were settling. Particularly in the years leading up to Congressional passage of the related act, there was armed conflict between settlers and Native Americans; some removal was achieved through sale or exchange of territory through treaties.
