HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM ROBESON: 1836-1911.
William Robeson Holloway , consul and Indianapolis journalist, was born on Dec. 6, 1836, in Richmond, Ind., the son of David P. and Jane Ann Paulson Holloway. He learned the printing business on his father's paper, the Richmond PALLADIUM, and from 1852 to 1857 worked on the CINCINNATI TIMES. In 1858 he returned to Richmond and married Miss Eliza Burbank of Centerville, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in 1860.
During the Civil War he was private secretary to Indiana 's governor, Oliver P. Morton. Following a year in business in New York City, he purchased the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL in 1864 and was its editor for several years. from 1869 to 1881 he was postmaster of Indianapolis . He then started the INDIANAPOLIS TIMES and edited it until 1886. In 1897 he was appointed U. S. Consul-General at St. Petersburg, Russia.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. 11, and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- History of Richmond and Wayne County. 1858.
- Indianapolis: a Historical and Statistical Sketch of the
Railroad City, a Chronicle of Its Social, Municipal, Commercial and
Manufacturing Progress, with Full Statistical Tables.
Indianapolis, 1870.
- A Bad Record, Hendricks as a Public Man. Speech at
Greencastle, Indiana, 1884. Boston, 1884.
