"Alexander Quarles HOLLADAY, educator, was born in Spottsylvania
county, Va., May 8, 1839; son of the Hon. Alexander Richmond and
Patsy Quarles (Poindexter) Holladay, and grandson of Waller and
Huldah Fontaine (Lewis) Holladay, and of Judge William G. and
Jane (Quarles) Poindexter. He prepared for college in the
schools of Richmond, Va.; studied at the University of Virginia.
1857-59, and at the University of Berlin, 1859-61; served as a
lieutenant in the Confederate army, 1861-65; was admitted to the
bar in 1870 and practised in partnership with his father in
Richmond, Va., 1870-77. He served in the Virginia senate,
1871-75; was a teacher in Richmond for some years; was president
of the Stonewall Jackson institute, Abingdon, Va., 1881-84, and
president of the Florida Agricultural college, 1885-88. He
organized and formed the North Carolina College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts in 1889, of which he was president until 1899,
when he resigned and became professor emeritus. He was married,
April 17, 1861, to Virginia Randolph Bolling, of Bolling Island,
James River, Va., and had five children: Mary Stuart, who
married the Rev. Peyton Harrison Hoge, D.D. (q.v.); William
Waller, who became a civil engineer in Wilmington, N.C.; Julia
Cabell, who married Dr. J. M. Pickell, professor of chemistry at
Shaw university, Raleigh, N.C.; Alexander Randolph, a civil
engineer of Richmond, Va., and Charles Bolling, a bank clerk,
also of Richmond. Professor Holladay received the honorary
degree of LL.D. from Davidson college in 1895. He is the author
of occasinnal addresses on educational and literary subjects,
and of frequent contributions to the editorial colunms of
leading southern newspapers.
source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans: Volume V H Holladay, Alexander Richmond".