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THOMAS BEVERLEY HOLCOMBE

518. McPherson, Hannah Elizabeth, The Holcombes: Nation Builders, Washington,
D.C., Privately printed, 1947, pp. 745-747. Dictionary of American
Biography, vol. 9, pp. 134-136, articles on James Philemon Holcombe by
James M. Callahan and on William Henry Holcombe by Clarence Bartlett.

519. See references in footnote 518 and Bruce, vol. 3, p. 72.

520. See section III, page 31, of this historical sketch, and footnote 141.

521. Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 1, p. 359; Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 72, 73.

522. See references in footnote 518. James Philemon Holcombe, the Law
Professor, was born in 1820, Thomas Beverley, the Librarian, in 1823,
and William Henry, the Physician, in 1825.

523. See McPherson reference in footnote 518, page.746.

524. See section II, page 27, of this historical sketch, and Visitors'
Minutes, 27 June 1857.

525. See section II, pages 24 (enrollment and book purchases) and 28A
(catalogue).

526. Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 105, 106; Faculty Minutes, 31 October 1860.

527. Faculty Minutes, 2 December 1861.

528. Visitors' Minutes, 30 June 1870.

529. New Orleans Daily Picayune, 17 December 1872, p. 4, c.4.: "Holcombe -
Suddenly of softening of the brain, Mr. Thomas B. Holcombe, aged fifty
years, brother of Dr. Wm. H. Holcombe of this city." See letters of 12
July 1852 from Dr. Garland F. Taylor, Director of Libraries, Tulane
University, New Orleans, and of Librarian Holcombe's great niece, Miss
Edith Aiken of New Orleans, dated 30 July 1952.