Brief Life History of Gilbert M.
When Gilbert M. Holbrook was born on 31 March 1845, in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Eliab Holbrook, was 27 and his mother, Julia F. Morse, was 27. He married Catherine Flannigan on 26 May 1868, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Detroit Ward 8, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 3 June 1921, at the age of 76.
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- G Holbrook, "United States Census, 1920"
- Holbrock, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Gilbert M Holbrooke, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · State Capital Moves to Lansing
Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’, such as Holbrook (Derbyshire, Dorset, Suffolk) and Howbrook in Wortley (Yorkshire).
Americanized form of North German Halbrock (or some like-sounding surname), a cognate of 1 above.
History: This name was first taken to America by the brothers Thomas and John Holbrook, who emigrated to MA in the 17th century; their line can be traced back to Dundry, Somerset, England, in the first half of the 16th century. Other English bearers who started early lines of descent in the New World are Joseph Ho(u)lbrook of Warrington, Lancashire, who emigrated to MD as an indentured servant in the later 17th century; Randolph Holbrook, who was in VA in the 1720s but later returned to Nantwich, Cheshire; and Rev. John Holbrook, who emigrated from Handbury, Staffordshire, to NJ c. 1723.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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