Holloway ted to the bar in April 1842, he began to practise in Woodbury, but after a short time he returned to Litchfield. In 1843 ^e was appointed clerk of the county court, holding this position, with the exception of a single year, until 1852. In June 1847 he married Mary S. Brisbane of Charleston, S. C., became an influential figure in western Connecticut, was elected to the state Senate in 1856, and was largely responsible for the election of James Dixon [q.v.~\ to the United States Senate. In February 1868 he was ap- pointed minister to Haiti by President Johnson but was recalled by President Grant in Septem- ber 1869. He returned to Connecticut and prac- tised law with his brother, David Frederick, in Bridgeport until 1876, when he again removed to Litchfield. He was elected to the legislature in 1880 as a Democrat, but died on Mar. 24 of the following year. He was a successful lawyer despite his meager knowledge of the law. Excelling in cross-exam- ination and in addressing a jury, he was un- equaled by any of the Connecticut bar as a trial lawyer. His interests, however, were literary rather than legal. In 1851 he published Mount Hope; or, Philip, King of the Wampanoags, a historical romance of Connecticut in the seven- teenth century. His History of Connecticut, from the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution, appeared in two volumes in 1855. Although it is based chiefly upon secondary materials and is extreme- ly dull, it is a valuable general history of the state. Hollister was also the author of Thomas d Becket, a tragedy in blank verse the acting copy- right of which was owned by Edwin Booth. It was produced only three times and now seems labored and lifeless. This play, together with "Andersonville," a poem which acquired popu- larity during the Civil War, and other verse, was published in 1866. Kinley Hollow, a novel pub- lished posthumously in 1882, is his most suc- cessful work. Partly historical and partly auto- biographical, it is a vigorous indictment of the sordid Puritanism of a New England village of the early nineteenth century. [L. W. Case, Hollister Family in America (1886) : D. C. Kilbourn, Bench and Bar of Litchfield County, Conn., 1709-1909 (1909) ; Hist. Record of the Class of 1840 Yale College (1897) ; G. A. Hickox, in 48 Conn. Reports, 590-92 ; New Haven Evening Register, Mar. 1.] F.M— n. HOLLOWAY, JOHN (c. i666-Dec. 14, 1734), Virginia colonial official, was born in England. As a youth he "served a Clerkship/' and then went with King William's army to Ireland. He was later an attorney of the Marshalsea court. According to a contemporary (Randolph, post, Holloway p. 120), Holloway turned "projector" and failed in business. This misfortune caused his emigra- tion to Maryland and eventually to Williamsburg, Va., where he practised law "upwards of thirty Years, with great Reputation for Diligence and Learning" (Ibid.). He is described in official records as "an eminent lawyer well acquainted with Parliamentary affairs, zealous and careful of the Privileges of the House of Burgesses" (Calendar of Virginia State Papersf I, 242), but according to Randolph, he was "of a haughty, insolent nature; passionate and peevish to the last Degree. . . . But what he wanted in Vir- tue and Learning to recommend him was abund- antly supplied by fortunate Accidents" (post). He was "universally courted," charged large fees, and acquired wealth which hid a multitude of faults. Sometime after 1720 he married Eliz- abeth (Catesby) Cocke, widow of Dr. William Cocke and sister of Mark Catesby [