Alexander Q. Holladay

Alexander Quarles Holladay LL.D. (8 May 1839 – 13 March 1909) was a United States lawyer, state senator and college administrator.

During the Civil War, Holladay was an officer of the Confederate States Army, rising to the rank of Colonel. For the remainder of his life he was commonly called "Colonel Holladay".

The son of Alexander Richmond Holladay (1811–1877), a lawyer and former U. S. Representative, by his marriage to Patsy Quarles Poindexter, Holladay was born in Cherry Grove, Virginia. He was educated, like his father, at the University of Virginia (1857–1859) and then at the University of Berlin (1859–1861) where he specialized in Latin, Greek, moral philosophy, and law. While at Charlottesville, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. On April 17, 1861, a few days after the outbreak of the Civil War, Holladay married Virginia Randolph Bolling, a daughter of Thomas Bolling of Bolling Island, in the upper James River in Goochland County, Virginia. On May 25, 1861, he was commissioned into the Confederate States Army. The Holladays' daughter Mary Stuart Holladay was born on February 3, 1862, their son William Waller Holladay on September 7, 1864, and their daughter Julia Cabell Holladay in 1868. They had two further sons, Alexander Randolph Holladay (March 12, 1870), and Charles Bolling Holladay, (February 12, 1873).

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