biography
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Holland, Josiah Gilbert
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1819–81)
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| biography:
| Writer and editor, born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA. Although he graduated from the Berkshire Medical College (1844), he left medicine first for teaching and then for publishing. He spent most of his career as an editor at the Springfield Republican (Massachusetts), where he worked under Samuel Bowles, son of the founder-publisher of the same name. He worked full-time at the Republican (1849–57), after which he concentrated on his writing. His many books include collections of Republican columns, such as A History of Western Massachusetts (1858) and Timothy Titcomb's Letters to Young People (1858), as well as volumes of poetry and some novels. In 1870 he was a founder and the first editor of Scribner's Monthly (later the Century). Widely read during his lifetime, he has been little read since then. |
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