Alonzo Potter Burgess Holly (1865 - 1943)

Born 21 Sep 1865 in Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti

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Biography

Alonzo Holly is Notable.

Alonzo Potter Burgess Holley, M.D., was the first graduate of New York Medical College of African descent to graduate from New York Medical College. Dr. Holley was appointed by the Haitian government as a consul to the Bahamas. He also served as the Episcopal Bishop of Haiti, the second African American to attain the rank after his father.

Dr. Potter Burgess Holley served as President of the Florida State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association and was a member of the National Medical Association.^[1]

Alonzo Holly, son of the Right Reverend Dr. James Theodore Augustus Holly and Sarah A. Henley, was born in Haiti in 1865.

In 1918, he married his second wife, Rose E. Browne.^[2]

He passed away in 1943. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.nymc.edu/school-of-medicine-som/som-alumni-profiles/alumni-in-memorium/alonzo-potter-burgess-holly/
2. ↑ Marriage: "U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current"
   The Miami Herald; Publication Date: 22/ Sep/ 1918; Publication Place: Miami, Florida, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/616212223/?article=b5d041bf-3bb4-491a-bb5c-18a49fb25701&focus=0.59207386,0.51592654,0.7238124,0.8928431&xid=3398
   Ancestry Record 62116 #31761934
   Dr Alonzo P B Holly marriage to Rose E Browne in about 1918 in Acksonville.
3. ↑ "United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WDJM-LQT2 : 14 December 2020), Alonzo Peter Burgess Holly, .

• 1920 Census: "1920 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1920; Census Place: Miami, Dade, Florida; Roll: T625_216; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 24
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6061 #101398430
  Alonzo P B Holly (54), married, Physician, head of household in Miami, Dade, Florida. Born in Haiti.
• 1930 Census: "1930 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1930; Census Place: Miami, Dade, Florida; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0041; FHL microfilm: 2340045
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6224 #102606427
  Alonza P Holly (62), married, Physician E Surgeon, head of household at 317 NW. 8th St., Miami, Dade, Florida, USA. Born in Haiti.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTZX-JFX : 4 January 2021), Alonzo P B Holly, Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 69-67, sheet 12B, line 44, family 202, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 630.

• Passenger List: "Florida, U.S., Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1898-1963"
  The National Archives At Washington, D.c.; Washington, D.c.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Miami, Florida; NAI Number: 2788508; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8842 #3399520
  Name: Alonzo P Holly; Gender: Male; Marital Status: Married; Age: 46; Birth Date: abt 1866; Record Type: Arrival; Arrival Date: 16 Jun 1912; Arrival Place: Miami, Florida, USA; Complexion: Blk; Eye Color: Blk; Hair Color: Blk; Height: 5 Feet 8 Inches; Money: 50.00; Last Residence Place: Nassau, Bahamas; Final Destination: Key West, Florida; Ship: Frances E; Child: [No Name]; Person in Old Country: Miss Catharine Hollis; Person in Old Country Gender: Female; Person in Old Country Residence: Nassau, Bahamas; Person in Old Country Relationship: Daughter.
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78693796/dr-holly-honored-1938/
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78695223/alonzo-holly-homeopath-1941/