HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT American author and editor, was born in Belchertown (Mass.), July 24 1819. He graduated in 1843 at the Berkshire medical college at Pittsfield (Mass.), and after practising medicine and making an unsuccessful attempt to establish a hospital for women, he taught for a while in Richmond (Va.) , and Vicksburg (Miss.) . In 1849 he became assistant editor under Samuel Bowles, and three years later one of the owners of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. After travelling in Europe he moved to New York in 1870, where he became editor and one-third owner of Scribner's Monthly (after 1881 The Century).
Dr. Holland's earlier books were published over the pseudonym "Timothy Titcomb." His highly popular writings include a History of Western Massachusetts (1855), and a Life of Abraham Lincoln (1865). He died Oct. 12, 1881.
See Mrs. H. M. Plunkett's Josiah Gilbert Holland (1894) .