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| Affiliation | Continental |
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| Name | Austin Holcomb |
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Atlanta, Georgia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 04, 1867
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| Died | October 09, 1942
(74 years)
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | Austin Holcomb was born in 1867 in Cardington OH, the son of Benajah D. and Mariah A. (Payne) Holcomb. The family moved to Atlanta, where Austin graduated from the Boys High School in 1883.
Holcomb became a newspaperman/publisher. He worked on the staff of the Jacksonville FL Morning News from 1885-1888, when he transferred to the Macon GA Telegraph (1888-1890). After serving as clerk in the record and pension office of the War Department in Washington DC, Holcomb returned to Atlanta and worked in the Holcomb Brothers printing business, 1893-1900, where he helped to publish The People's Party Paper,, edited by Thomas E. Watson. He published the Atlanta Market Report 1899-1901. While living in GA, Holcomb married Imogene M. M. Sturgis (1898), by whom he had two children: Catherine and Dwight.
Holcomb served as secretary for the Populist Party in Georgia during the 1890s.
Around 1900, Holcomb moved to Missouri. He worked for Barrick Publishing Co. in Kansas City from 1900-1903 (note the overlap in dates from above). Following this position, Holcomb became the editor of the Kansas City Packer (1903-1904).
In 1904, Holcomb was nominated for president by the Continental Party, with A.A. King as his running mate. They appeared on the ballot only in IL.
After a brief stint at the Brunswick Journal, Holcomb joined the staff of a NYC paper named The Produce News. Holcomb worked for the paper from 1910 until his death in 1942. He married his second wife, Pauline W. Muir, in 1923. Holcomb was a Mason and an Episcopalian. He died in Los Angeles CA in 1942.
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