Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Holbrook, Millard C. September 1, 1876 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 405 - 406
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     MILLARD C. HOLBROOK, who for nearly twenty-five years was numbered among 
the leading dentists of Portland, is now extensively engaged in the real 
estate business, in which he is meeting with a large measure of success. Mr. 
Holbrook was born in Portland on the 1st of September, 1876, and is a son of 
Philo and Hannah (Wilson) Holbrook. His father, who was born in Seymour, 
Connecticut, came to Oregon, by way of Cape Horn, in 1860 and settled at The 
Dalles. He came of a seafaring family that was established in this country in 
an early day, three brothers of the name having settled along the Atlantic 
coast prior to the war of the Revolution, in which conflict several members of 
the family participated. Philo Holbrook was prominent in the early affairs of 
Oregon, having been the first registered pilot on the upper Columbia river. He 
served for sixteen years as a county commissioner and was a strong and 
effective advocate of good roads. His wife, who was born on the plains while 
her parents were en route to Oregon in 1849, was a daughter of Samuel Wilson, 
who was an Indian war veteran and was wounded in the battle at Chambers 
Prairie, on Puget sound. He was a farmer near Holbrook, was also the owner of 
a store and served as postmaster.

     Millard C. Holbrook received his early education in the public schools of 
Portland, graduating from high school, after which he attended the medical 
school of the University of Oregon. Deciding to make dentistry his life work, 
he entered the Philadelphia Dental College and was graduated with the degree 
of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1900. He engaged in practice in Portland, also 
operating an X-ray department, and gained distinction as an able and skilled 
operator. In 1923 Dr. Holbrook retired from the dental profession and turned 
his attention to real estate promotions, in connection with which he became 
associated with J. A. Charlesworth, of Charlesworth & Company. They have been 
very active in this line of effort, in which they have been notably 
successful. Dr. Holbrook promoted and was associate fiscal agent for the 
Medical Arts building, which is eight stories high, covers a half block of 
ground and cost a million dollars; with Charlesworth he promoted the Portland 
theater, costing one and a quarter million dollars, and the New Heathman 
hotel, which cost four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In all of his 
operations Mr. Holbrook has shown business sagacity and sound judgment which 
stamps him as a man of unusual ability, and the success which is crowning his 
efforts is also contributing in a very definite measure to the upbuilding and 
development of his city. He is secretary of Portland Paramount Corporation, 
president of the Holbrook Estate and second vice president of the Fidelity 
Savings and Loan Association.

     On October 31, 1906, in Portland, Mr. Holbrook was united in marriage to 
Miss Edna Jeffery, who was born and reared in this city and is a daughter of 
E. J. and Nautilla (King) Jeffery. Her father was born in New York in 1835, 
came to Portland in 1852 and served as sheriff of Multnomah county at one 
time. Her mother, who was born in Portland in 1850, was a daughter of Amos 
King, who owned a donation land claim covering what is now the city park, in 
Portland, which comprises a large part of the hills west of the city. Mr. and 
Mrs. Holbrook are the parents of two children. Jane, born September 4, 1907, 
is a student in the University of Oregon, and Jeffery, born February 27, 1914, 
is attending the public schools.

     Mr. Holbrook is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, in which he was a 
corporal and served fourteen months in the Philippines. Two of his brothers 
also served there at the same time, Philo, Jr., who later became county 
surveyor and county commissioner of Multnomah county, and Samuel, who served 
as deputy county assessor. They also have two sisters, Mrs. Emily Gaylord and 
Mrs. Helen Watts, both of whom reside in Portland. Dr. Holbrook is a member of 
the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; the Royal Arcanum, of which he is a past 
grand regent; the Spanish-American War Veterans; the Multnomah Athletic Club, 
of which he is a life member; the Portland District Dental Society; the Oregon 
State Dental Society, of which he is a past president. Mr. Holbrook is much 
interested in athletics, outdoor sport, hunting and fishing. He was an early 
football star of the Willamette Club and was one of the committee that 
pioneered municipal golf in Portland. It was largely through his efforts that 
the Seaside Golf course was built, hewn out of rough land, timber and rock, 
and fronting the ocean, the property being the site of the famous old Seaside 
Hotel, which was destroyed by fire. He is a man of great force of character 
and an attractive personality and all who know him hold him in the highest 
regard.

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