57:. His father Moses Holbrook had moved to New York from Massachusetts. Holbrook's father died when he was seven years old, and he then moved to Massachusetts with his grandfather. This was primarily to give him better access to schools. When he was 19 he returned to Annisville. Due to his mother having remarried, however, he returned to Massachusetts after a few weeks. He worked as a farm laborer in his grandfather's household for the next two years and then moved to
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