Doctor Holston

Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Wed, 2017-06-21 23:17
Text: 
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
Character Key: 
Alexander Holston
Display Name: 
Doctor Holston
Sort Name: 
Holston, Doctor
AKA: 
Alexander Holston
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Professional
Specific Job: 
Doctor
First Mentioned: 
Courthouse and Square in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Name for the City"
"Hand Upon the Waters"
Intruder in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Town
Biography: 

The character here called "Doctor Holston" (675) is probably the same man as the Alexander Holston who was one of the original three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha. He built the "Holston House," the hotel on the Square that continues to bear his name through the end of the Yoknapatawpha saga. (In calling him Doctor Holston, Faulkner seems, probably by a lapse of memory, to conflate him with Doctor Habersham, another of that original trio of settlers.)

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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