Silas Pinckney Holbrook

Background

Holbrook, Silas Pinckney was born on June 1, 1796 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. Son of Silas and Mary (Edwards) Holbrook.

Education

Graduate Brown University, 1815.

Career

Admitted to Massachusetts bar, began practice law, Medfield, Massachusetts. Devoted career to literary pursuits, from circa 1818. Contributed short stories and essays to publications including New England Galaxy, Boston Courier.

Contributed to European portion of Peter Parley’s Pictorial Geography.

Wrote travel sketches, Letters from a Mariner, Travels of a Tin Pedlar under pseudonym Jonathan Farbink. Editor Tribune, Boston, 1820’son

Author: Sketches by a Traveler, 1834.

Achievements

• Silas Pinckney Holbrook has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Esther Gourdine.