Background
Holloway, William Robeson was born on December 6, 1836 in Richmond, Indiana, United States. Son of David P. (ex-Medical Corps, commissioner patents under President Lincoln), and Jane Ann (Paulson) H.
Holloway, William Robeson was born on December 6, 1836 in Richmond, Indiana, United States. Son of David P. (ex-Medical Corps, commissioner patents under President Lincoln), and Jane Ann (Paulson) H.
Educated Richmond, Indiana, schools.
Read law in office Oliver P. Morton, Centerville, Indiana. Admitted to bar, 1860. Private secretary Governor O. P. Morton, 1861.
Purchased Indianapolis Journal, 1864, and was several years its editors
State printer, 1861-1863. Postmaster Indianapolis, 1869-1881.
Private secretary Mayor C. South. Denny, 1894-1895. Started Indianapolis Times, 1880, conducted it until 1886.
United States Consul-General at Saint St. Petersburg Russia, 1897-1904, Halifax, Nova Scoti, 1904-1907.
Married Richmond, Indiana, November 8, 1858, Eliza Brubank (died, August 1880).