Education
Holcombe graduated from Union College, where he was selected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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In 1884, South. Wells Williams, the distinguished missionary who had become secretary to the American legation in Beijing, asked Holcombe to be his replacement. As a diplomat, he filled various posts in United States diplomatic service in China, helping in the negotiations of two treaties between the United States and China. He was the author of The Real Chinaman (1895) and The Real Chinese Question (1900), which attempted to expose myths concerning China, Chinese culture, and the issue of Chinese immigration to the United States.
In September, 1906, he published "The Missionary Enterprise," in The Atlantic Monthy, a defense from the accusations following the Boxer Uprising.
