Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Holbrook, George 1767 - 
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

MAJ. GEORGE HOLBROOK.

   GEORGE HOLBROOK, son of Daniel and Esther (Hall) Holbrook, was born April 28,
1767, in Wrentham, Mass. He received a limited education in the public schools;
and while young was apprenticed to Paul Revere, of Revolutionary fame, to learn
the machinist and dockmaker's trades. After serving his full time he began
manufacturing bells in Brookfield, having learned the art from an old English
Encyclopaedia; was very successful and built up a large business. Meeting with
financial troubles in 1812, he removed to Laconia, N. H., then Meredith Bridge,
where he carried on a farm. Happening to be in East Medway in the year 1816, and
knowing that a bell was wanted for the new church just completed, he agreed to
cast it and did so in a shed standing where Mr. E. L. Holbrook's house now is.
It was a novel thing and people came from many towns to see the sight. The bell
was a good one, however, was raised on the church and served for many years.
This was the first bell cast in Medway and is the date of the establishment of
the Holbrook Bell Foundry in this place. Major Holbrook received his title as an
officer of the State Militia. Mary Evalina Holbrook, daughter of Major Holbrook,
was born Jan. 2, 1807, in Brookfield, Mass. She was a lady of great personal
beauty and accomplishment. She had a musical education and a voice of great
purity and sweetness. She was a leading singer in the Handel and Haydn Society,
of Boston, Mass., and a great favorite among musical people. She married John
Baker, Jr.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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