Alamosa-Conejos County CO Archives Biographies.....Holbrook, Charles Clement July 13, 1848 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

Judge Charles Clement Holbrook

     This highly esteemed, universally trusted and in every way worthy citizen

of Conejos county, Colorado, who is now serving his third term in an exalted

official station to which he was once elected to fill a vacancy and has been

twice re-elected, and which he has highly dignified and adorned, was born in

Russell county, Virginia, on July 13, 1848.  His parents, S.V. and Mary M.

(Johnson) Holbrook, were also natives of the old Dominion and moved from there

to Kentucky in 1862.  The father was a successful farmer.  When the dread cloud

of civil war descended on our unhappy country and divided the sections with

bitterness that could only be wiped out with fraternal blood, he espoused the

cause of the Union, stumped a portion of Virginia against secession, and, as was

inevitable, lost heavily in property and the fruits of his enterprise.  He died

in 1879 and his widow in 1902.  Two of their children, Cap. F.M. Holbrook and

the Judge, survive them.  The latter received a common-school education and

afterward attended an academy at Greenup, Kentucky.  Later, while teaching

school, he pursuied [sic] his academic studies and prepared himself for the bar,

to which he was admitted on March 10, 1876, at Greenup, Kentucky, and there he

practiced until April, 1877.  He then left the scenes and associations of his

youth for what was at that time a far western land, coming to Colorado and

arriving at Castle Rock in Douglas county, on April 15th.  He practiced his

profession at that place until the middle of December, 1882, when he removed to

Alamosa, where he has since lived.  In 1881 he was elected district attorney of

the fourth judicial district of the state, and he also served as county attorney

first of Elbert and then Costilla county, an aggregate of seven years.  In 1891

he was elected judge of the twelfth judicial district to fill an unexpired term

of three years, and at its end in 1894 he was elected for a full term of six

years, and in 1900 was re-elected to another of equal length.  In political

faith he is an unwavering Republican, and was president of the first Roosevelt

Republican club in Colorado, which he organized.  He is a third-degree Mason and

an Odd Fellow, fraternally, and affiliates with the Seventh-Day Adventists in

religious belief.  This sect he joined on July 4, 1896, and in August next

ensuing he was ordained an elder, a position he still holds in the organization.

 On August 15, 1882, he was married to Miss Lillian Booth, the oldest daughter

of Levi and Millie A. Booth.  They have had four children, of whom one, a son

named Booth, was accidentally drowned on June 24, 1898; and the other three are

living and are Millie M., a graduate of the Alamosa high school, and who, at her

graduation, was awarded first prize for oratory in the oratorical contest of the

San Luis valley high schools, Lillian and Glen A., residents of Alamosa.  In the

performance of his official duties the Judge has met every requirement of his

exalted station and satisfied every expectation raised by his well known high

character, strict integrity and extensive legal learning.  In his citizenship he

has been faithful and serviceable to every interest of the people and the

section of his residence; and in his social life he has contributed to give

character and elevation to the whole outward expression of the public and

domestic institutions of his people.  He is an ornament to the state and a fine

example of upright and progressive American citizenship.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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