Certificate of death of Richard Holbrook, Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, 22 Sept 1923

Found on Ancestry, 7 Oct 2026. The typewriter's o prints like an e ("Helbreek", "Daketa"); read here as o.

• Place of death: Burleigh County, N. Dakota; city of Bismarck; "Bismarck Evangelical Hosp" (handwritten).
• Full name: Richard Holbrook. Residence: "Pollock S Dak." Length of residence in city or town where death occurred (Bismarck): 2 days.
• Sex male; color white; married. "Husband of": left blank.
• Date of birth: "Sept 16" (no year). Age: 51 years.
• Occupation: farmer.
• Birthplace: Washington.
• Father: Holbrook (no given name); his birthplace: Maine.
• Mother's maiden name: Phillips; her birthplace: Maine.
• Informant: "Mrs Maud Holbrook, Pollock S. Dakota."
• Filed 10/5 1923; registrar's signature not read.
• Date of death: Sept 22, 1923. The physician attended him from Sept 21 to Sept 22, 1923, and death occurred at 6:30 [?] p.m. (the Tribune says 7 o'clock). No cause of death appears on this copy.
• Place of burial: Pollock, S. Dakota; date of burial left blank. Undertaker: Webb Brothers, Bismarck, N. Dakota.

This identifies the Pollock farmer as Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Jr.: his own birthday (16 Sept), his birthplace, his mother's birthplace, and her name given as "Phillips", the same mistake he made himself on his 1900 marriage return ("Hattie Phillips"; Marriage return no. 4461, King County, Washington: Richard B. Holbrook and Jessie Clifford, 28 Sept 1900). Harriet Phillips Low was born at Deer Isle, Maine; his father, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, is given as born in Maine.