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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES

 

ARTIST, GEOLOGIST, ARCHEOLOGIST AND ART GALLERY

DIRECTOR

 

1846-19--

 

The subject of this sketch was born December 1,

1846, in the home of his parents, Joseph and Mary He-

berling Holmes, near the city of Cadiz, Ohio, the home

farm being one of the subdivisions of the original grant

to his grandfather in 1800.    The house was on the

Cadiz -- St. Clairsville road, four and one-half miles

south of Cadiz. As recorded in Colonel Holmes' work,

"The American Family of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes,"

he represents the eighth generation of this family in

America.*

The earliest memory of Mr. Holmes is of the occa-

sion when his father and mother took him, each by a

hand, and led him into the garden to show him and let

him taste the first ripe strawberries of the season. This

episode was followed by numerous personally directed

exploits in gardens and orchards, which may be re-

garded as prophetic of his career as an explorer and

collector. One of these exploits was a raid on the wa-

termelon patch when the melons were about the size of

 

* For the family history see Colonel Holmes' book, "The American

Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes," by Col. J. T. Holmes, Columbus, Ohio,

1915. For details of the professional career of Mr. Holmes, see publica-

tions of the Smithsonian Institution, the two Geological Surveys, the Bu-

reau of American Ethnology, the U. S. National Museum, the National

Gallery of Art and the Field Columbian Museum, 1872-1927. The list of

his publications includes 217 numbers.

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