Holmes, Mary Emma – Holt, Joseph
Holmes, Mary Emma
educator, reformer, was born Aug. 3, 1839, in Peoria county, Ill. After receiving her education at the Peoria high school, she engaged in educational work. She has attained success as a reformer, suffragist and religious teacher. She is the president of the Equal Suffrage association of Illinois; a member of the Chicago Woman's club; member a of the Young Woman's Christian association of Chicago; and chairman of its travelers' aid department, which has for its object the protection of ignorant girls at our depots.
Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane
author, was born in Brookfield, Mass. After receiving her education she taught school for awhile; then entered the field of literature. She has traveled in almost every country of the world; and has written extensively for magazines and newspapers on her travels and historical topics. She is the author of: Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine; Marian Grey; Gretchen; and various other popular works of fiction. Over two million copies of her works have been sold.
Holmes, Morrison A
soldier, educator, college president, was born Feb. 6, 1835 , in Augusta, N. Y. He received his education in the public schools, Augusta academy, and at the Whitestown seminary . He entered educational work as a teacher in the public schools of Augustus, N. Y.; and continued in the same profession in 1859, at Stockbridge, Mass.
During the civil war he served as a union soldier in the thirty-seventh regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He then engaged in business for a few years, but subsequently resumed teaching. Since 1886 he has been president of the Avery Normal institute of Charleston, S. C.
Holmes, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 2, 1814, in Pe- , N. H. He was a jurist of St.
Louis in earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in Harvard university, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He is an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. He is the author of The Authorship of Shakespeare; and Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
equally noted as a poet, novelist, essayist, and physician, is one of the most witty, original and brilliant writers of the nineteenth century; born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809, was educated partly at Phillips academy, graduating at Harvard when twenty years of age. Young Oliver then spent a year in studying law. but very soon abandoned the law in order to enter upon the study of medicine, which course he pursued in Europe, chiefly in Paris. In 1838 Mr.
Holmes became professor of anatomy and physiology in Dartmouth college, which position he held until the time of his marriage, in 1840, when he removed to Boston, and there won much success as a practicing physician and as a literary writer. In 1847 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy and physiology in Harvard-the seat of the medical department of this university being in Boston-a post which he filled with honor until 1882. Dr. Holmes was one of the founders of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, to which he contributed from time to time; and in the pages of this periodical first appeared The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. His works are:
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; Professor at the Breakfast Table; Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old The The The Volume of Life, comprise his prose works.
In verse his publications include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; and Before the Curfew. He died in 1894.
Holmes, Sidney T
civil engineer, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in August, 1815, in Schaghticoke, N. Y.
He was twice appointed loan commissioner for Madison county, in 1848 and 1850; and in 1851 was elected judge and surrogate for the same county, and re-elected in 1855 and 1859, serving until 1864. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.
Holmes, Theophilus Hunter
soldier, was born in 1804, in Sampson county, N. C. He was commissioned major in 1855, and was made a brigadiergeneral in the service of the state. He died June 21, 1880, in Fayetteville, N. C.
Holmes, Uriel
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1817 to 1818, when he resigned. He died in 1827.
Holmes, William
lumberman, financier, was born April 16, 1830, in New Brunswick, Canada. In 1854 he moved to Green Bay, Wis., thence to Escanaba, Mich.; and in 1858 to Menominee, Mich.
For forty years he has been actively engaged in the lumber business; is part owner of a paper mill, and a stockholder in the Lumberman's National bank. He has taken active part in an the business and public affairs of his city, and has filled numerous offices of trust.
Holmes, William Henry
soldier, clergyman, theologian, was born in 1834, in Vermont. He served during the civil war in the Vermont brigade with the army of the Potomac. In 1875 he entered the methodist ministry and became a clergyman in the Rock River conference. ce. He has filled important pastorates in Chicago and vicinity; and is prominent in the religious affairs of his conference and in philanthropic movements. gist, author, was born Dec. 1, 1846, in
Holmes, William Henry
geolo- Harrison county, Ohio. In 1872 he was appointed assistant on the United States geological survey, and spent eight years in field work and explorations in the Rocky mountain region. In 1881, when the survey was established on its present basis, he was made geologist in charge of the division of illustrations. He has edited Hayden's Atlas of Colorado, that of the Yellowstone country, the eleventh and twelfth annual reports of the geological survey, and other geological publications.
Holmes, Zachariah
architect, builder, legislator, was born Sept. 23, 1853, in Sweden. In 1871 he came to the United States, and was one of the first settlers of Rapid City, S. D., where he has lived since 1877. He was the founder of the Swedish settlement around Black Hawk, S. D.; and is a successful architect and builder. He was elected a member of the state legislature in 1893; and again in 1897.
Holsey, Hopkins
journalist, congressman, was born in 1799, in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Georgia, from 1837 to 1839. He subsequently edited the Athens Banner, and filled a large space in the politics of Georgia. He died March 31, 1859, in Columbus, Ga.
Holst, Hermann Eduard Von
educator, lecturer, author, was born in 1841. He is an historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of history in the university of Strassburg, in 1872-74, and at Freiburg, in 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the university of Chicago. He is the author of The Constitutional and Political History of the United States; Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; and Constitutional Law of the United States.
Holston, George
artist, was born March 10, 1835, in London, England. In 1867 he emigrated to New York city, and has attained prominence as a portrait painter and successful art teacher. He has exhibited occasionally in the American Water-Color society, and other institutions of art.
Holt, Homer A
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 27, 1831, in Par- , W. Va. He received his education at the Rector college, and at the university of Virginia. In 1872 he was a member of the constitutional convention of West Virginia. In 1871 he became circuit judge of the Greenbrier circuit, which position he filled with distinction for sixteen years. In 1890 ne became president judge of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia, his term ending on Jan. 1, 1897.
Holt, John
journalist, was born in 1721, in Williamsburg, Va. He established The Gazette and Post Boy. In 1766 he founded the New York Journal, containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestic. He died Jan. 30, 1784, in New York city.
Holt, John Saunders
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 5, 1826, in Mobile, Ala. He was a lawyer of New Orleans, and the author of Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; and The Quines. He died Feb. 27, 1886, in Natchez, Miss.
Holt, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1807, in Breckenridge county, Ky. For two years he was attorney for the commonwealth at Louisville. In 1859 he went into the cabinet as postmaster-general.