HOLCOMBE, JOHN WALKER: 1853-1940.
John Walker Holcombe was born in LaPorte, Ind., in 1853. He graduated from Harvard University and became a teacher, serving two terms as Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the early Eighties. He married Effie Burford McOuat of Indianapolis .
In 1887 he went to Washington , where he was employed first by the Bureau of Education and later by the Department of the Interior. He died Feb. 10, 1940, in Washington, D. C.
Information from the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for Feb. 13, 1940.
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