The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-08-12

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As to our professional men, we have
our share of teachers, lawyers, preachers
and doctors, and not less than three col
lege professors are here on these grounds
to-day.
In politics, some have filed posi-
tons from Governor all the way down
to the Esquire. Hon. VIM. Holcombe,
born and raised here, was Governor of
Minnesota in an early day. George Hol-
c ombe died while Member of Congress
from New Jersey. This county of Hun
terdon had Geo. Holcombe for Sheriff in
1900 and George B. Hocombe for Sheriff
in 1862, and another descendant, John
Bells, in 1876 Our Register here to-day,
R. Holcombe Wilson, yet young man,
has served two terms in our State Legisla-
ture, with others.
Then there are our cousins whose an
cestry followed the May Flower and own
ed land in Boston town, as early as 1880.
Their record is good and their historian
will tell it. There are our cousins in the
South and West, scattered well, in all the
ranks Of life. James P. and William H.
Holcombe, graduates of Yale and Hamp-
den Sidney Colleges, rank with the
best scholars and authors of this cen
fury. The late Henry Holcombe, d.
D., pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Philadelphia, in the early part of this CEN
fury, was an able and exemplary man
and his grandson Rev. Henry Holcombe
Tucker, late ed itor of the "Chrlstian In
dex," published at Atlanta, Ca, filled
large places with great ability. For a
time, he served as a college professor,
then President of college and later Pres
ident of Theological Seminary. He was
known during the war of the Rebellion
and later as the peace maker OF the reli-
gious denomination to which he belonged,
and as strife ceased and the smoke of
battle blew away, for his conservative
ability he was sent North at the head OF
his denominational delegation to unite
North and South again in Christian work.
Such are the Holcombes OF America, with
few who need the mantle of charity
thrown over their misdoings.
The time has now come for us to know
ourselves, one common family in America
from one common parentage. We are
the Holcombe descendants and our gene
illogical record must be preserved. The
descendants of Jacob and John Hol-
combe will be in book form just as soon
as your subscription will cover the ex-
pense of publication, and we hope that
these Reunions will arouse SO much of a
determination that before another grand
gathering like this shall be held, you shall
have in each family biography.
see before me to-day great repre-
sentation of these Holcombe descendants,
in the main those of Jacob aud John Hol-
combe, and also some OF our cousins from
the East, West, North and South, as well.
| Some are here from Massachusetts, Con-
nectcut aud other New England States
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Della.
ware, Maryland and States further away,
are represented on these grounds II
our grand gathering, where ut high moor
to-day, we are expected, wearing thu
Holcombe badge, to dine together, and a
the Master of Ceremonies on this long-to
aforementioned occasion, 1t will becom
my pleasant duty to extend the hand o
cordial welcome to all from every State
who come here to-day TO partake OF what
ever of pleasure or profit may accru
from this Reunion.
To the Holcombes of Massachusetts W
will say, your genealogy is with the Phi
grim fathers, for the Holcombes were i
possession of the lands in that common
wealth only ten years after the landing o
the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1920.
You cousins of Connecticut, the outcom
of the migration movement westward, tbs
has so far been characteristic of the Amel
lean people, found the Holcombes in th
town of CRANKY, In your State, among II
earliest settlers. Your name is commo
in all the counties and your people con
mingled with many in that State.
To you cousins of New York-you al
the descendants OF the pioneers in the
westward march, and among your nun
bers the genealogist finds that the earl
fathers were from New England, New Jel
sey and Pennsylvania as well, maxim
your relationship common with US all.
AS to you cousins Of Delaware, we c
course know that State 80 nearly allied
could not escape the migratory movement
of our numerous families. Your mum
bers there are not SO great, yet Delawar
is the home OF some of our kindred.
Maryland, my Maryland" the Ho
combes did not pass you by. The cousin
are here with us to-day in all these happ
greetings.
, Ohio cousins, more numerous yet, an
still you come to see face to face your neg
of kin! Yes, some very near, and to you
, your journey here, you see to day the ofte
thought-of near relations, who live on Il
old tramping ground your fathers told yc
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