Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 45.
In the fall of 1855, he went to Saginaw and Vassar, Mich., and worked in a logging camp for the winter. After that he was for a year in Iowa. Then he helped work his fathers farm until war was declared between the North and the South. He enlisted in the Conn. First Light Battery for three years, Dec. 2, 1861. He was honorably discharged at HIlton Head, Va., Dec 3, 1864. He remained at home until the war was finished, then went to Beaufort, South Carolina, and had a small cotton plantation and a general store ...
... In 1870, he purchased the Isaac Rood place at the junction of the Seymour and Bungay roads. One of his sons lives on the place. ... Was a member of the Morning Star Lodge of F. & A. M. of Seymour, Conn ...