Holmes Family History & Genealogy

I cannot tell a lie? George Washington may have said that but it's certainly not something Herman Webster Mudgett, aka H H Holmes, would have said. He couldn't tell the truth! He was the 3rd born of Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price, having an older brother and sister and a younger brother and sister. Mudgett graduated from medical school in 1886 and moved to Chicago to set up a pharmacy. But he didn't stop with the pharmacy, he also built a hotel across the street which later became known as the "Murder Castle". Why? Because during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, he was thought to lure women to the hotel, make them get life insurance in order to work for him, and then kill them. No one caught on, the women simply disappeared. Several years later, however, a friend/accomplice in insurance fraud Ben Pritezel as well as his wife and 2 children were found murdered. Holmes was arrested in the murders. He was tried, found guilty, and hung in 1896. Per his request, his coffin was covered by concrete so no one could disturb his grave. (His request may have been influenced by the fact that when he was in medical school, he dug up graves and sold the cadavers to medical schools.) Mudgett/Holmes sold his story to Hearst Publications for approximately a quarter of a million dollars in today's money. In that story, he claimed to have killed 130 people. When he was arrested, he claimed to have killed 27. Holmes/Mudgett had married 3 times. He and his first wife had a son and he reportedly abused her. She left and never looked back. While still married to his first wife, he married his second wife, filing for divorce from his first wife a few weeks later (never finalized). He and his second wife had a daughter. Then while still married to his first and second wives, he married the third. Read his obituary H. H. Holmes: Obituary

Marian Kathleen Delores (Holmes) Kroetch was born on April 21, 1929 at Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. She was married to Hollis Frederick Kroetch in 1965, and they were together until Marian's death on September 5, 1995. Marian Kroetch was buried at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, in Frederick, Maryland United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marian Kathleen Delores "Dee" (Holmes) Kroetch.

It is worth Googling to find info. Or he is in many books. The car his cousin (& he) invented is in the Melbourne museum. Called the Thomson steam car. The Dunlop tyre was invevted for this (verbally told). Armadale Victoria. Many photos. This link has some good info: He sat as secretary on the earliest RACV (Victoria). He owned a cordial factory at Woonona. He died in a hospital room with either (I can’t remember) Blaxland, Wentworth or Lawson. I’m sure it wasn’t Wentworth. Father: Edward Mother: Marion Sister: Annie Ethel Florence The photo I found is unverified by me of his parents and siblings.

Had a wooden leg. The Goulburn Evening Penny Post. 25th October 1932. - LEG AMPUTATED. SEQUEL TO COLLISION. Inujured in motoring accident on the Prince's Highway recently, Mr. Selwyn Holmes, formerly of Goulburn, later had his right leg amputated below the knee. Mr. Holmes was riding his motor cycle between Bulli and Thirroul when he came into collision with a motor car, the force of the impact badly smashing his leg.

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settler's Adviser. January 1910. HISTORICAL TUMUT. The first mailman to these parts was Ned Holmes. He carried the mails from Gundagai to Tumut when the town was on the flat, and he used to herald his approach by the blowing of a horn to rouse the inhabitants to the arrival of the much appreciated mail. The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser. June 1919. Licensing Court. Edward Holmes, Royal Hotel, Euabalong.

James Edward Holmes of Bexar County, TX was born in 1947 at Texas. James Holmed was married to Shelley L. (Brietzke) Holmes on October 15, 1989 in Bexar County, TX.

Dorothy Anne (Holmes) Stewart of Valley, Chambers County, AL was born circa May 16, 1944 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia United States to Leon Willard Holmes. Dorothy was baptized at Langdale United Methodist Church in Valley, Chambers County, Alabama US. Dorothy Stewart died at age 62 years old circa December 24, 2006 at Bethany House in Opelika, Lee County, and was buried circa December 26, 2006 at Resthaven Cemetary Highway 50, in Lanett, Chambers County.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lesley A. Holmes.

William C. Holmes Jr. was born on January 3, 1924, and died at age 62 years old on March 26, 1986. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William C. Holmes, Jr..

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Emery Holmes.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was born on August 29, 1809 at Cambridge, Middlesex, MA in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, and died at age 85 years old on October 7, 1894 at Boston, Massachusetts. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States In office December 4, 1902 – January 12, 1932 Nominated by Theodore Roosevelt Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court In office August 2, 1899 – December 4, 1902 Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court In office ecember 15, 1882 – August 2, 1899 Nominated by John Long Born March 8, 1841 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died March 6, 1935 (aged 93) Washington, D.C., U.S. Political party Republican Spouse(s) Fanny Bowditch Dixwell (1840–1929) Education Harvard University (BA, LLB) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States in January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, concise and pithy opinions, and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a unanimous Court in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored during his lifetime in Great Britain as well as the United States. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, making him the oldest justice in the Supreme Court's history. He also served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School. Profoundly influenced by his experience fighting in the American Civil War, Holmes helped move American legal thinking towards legal realism, as summed up in his maxim: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Holmes espoused a form of moral skepticism and opposed the doctrine of natural law, marking a significant shift in American jurisprudence. In one of his most famous opinions, his dissent in Abrams v. United States (1919), he regarded the United States Constitution as "an experiment, as all life is an experiment" and believed that as a consequence "we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death." During his tenure on the Supreme Court, to which he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, he supported efforts for economic regulation and advocated broad freedom of speech under the First Amendment. These positions as well as his distinctive personality and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives.[4] His jurisprudence influenced much subsequent American legal thinking, including judicial consensus supporting New Deal regulatory law, and influential schools of pragmatism, critical legal studies, and law and economics. He was one of only a handful of justices to be known as a scholar; The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Holmes as the third-most cited American legal scholar of the 20th century. Early life Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmosphere of intellectual achievement, and early formed the ambition to be a man of letters like Emerson. While still in Harvard College he wrote essays on philosophic themes, and asked Emerson to read his attack on Plato's idealist philosophy. Emerson famously replied, "If you strike at a king, you must kill him." He supported the Abolitionist movement that thrived in Boston society during the 1850s. At Harvard, he was a member of the Hasty Pudding and the Porcellian Club; his father had also been a member of both clubs. In the Pudding, he served as Secretary and Poet, as his father did.[6] He enlisted in the Massachusetts militia in the spring of 1861, when the president first called for volunteers following the firing on Fort Sumter, but returned briefly to Harvard College to participate in commencement exercises.[7] In the summer of 1861 with his father's help he obtained a lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Holmes's early life was described in detail by Mark DeWolfe Howe, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Shaping Years, 1841–1870 (1957). Civil War During his senior year of college, at the outset of the American Civil War, Holmes enlisted in the fourth battalion, Massachusetts militia, then received a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He saw much action, taking part in the Peninsula Campaign, the Battle of Fredricksburg and the Wilderness, suffering wounds at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, and suffered from a near-fatal case of dysentery. He particularly admired and was close to Henry Livermore Abbott, a fellow officer in the 20th Massachusetts. Holmes rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, but eschewed promotion in his regiment and served on the staff of the VI Corps during the Wilderness Campaign. Abbott took command of the regiment in his place, and was later killed. Holmes received a brevet (honorary) promotion to colonel in recognition of his services during the war. He retired to his home in Boston after his three-year enlistment ended in 1864, weary and ill, his regiment disbanded. Legal career - Lawyer and state judge In the summer of 1864, Holmes returned to the family home in Boston, wrote poetry, and debated philosophy with his friend William James, pursuing his debate with philosophic idealism, and considered reenlisting. But by the fall, when it became clear that the war would soon end, Holmes enrolled in Harvard Law School, "kicked into the law" by his father, as he later recalled.[14] He attended lectures there for a single year, reading extensively in theoretical works, and then clerked for a year in his cousin Robert Morse's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, and after a long visit to London, to complete his education, went into law practice in Boston. He joined a small firm, and in 1872 married a childhood friend, Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, buying a farm in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, the following year. Their marriage lasted until her death on April 30, 1929. They never had children together. They did adopt and raise an orphaned cousin, Dorothy Upham. Fanny disliked Beacon Hill society, and devoted herself to embroidery. She was described as devoted, witty, wise, tactful, and perceptive. Whenever he could, Holmes visited London during the social season of spring and summer, and during the years of his work as a lawyer and judge in Boston, he formed romantic friendships with English women of the nobility, with whom he corresponded while at home in the United States. The most important of these was his friendship with the Anglo-Irish Clare Castletown, the Lady Castletown, whose family estate in Ireland, Doneraile Court, he visited several times, and with whom he may have had a brief affair. He formed his closest intellectual friendships with British men, and became one of the founders of what was soon called the "sociological" school of jurisprudence in Great Britain, followed a generation later by the "legal realist" school in America. Holmes practiced admiralty law and commercial law in Boston for fifteen years. It was during this time that he did his principal scholarly work, serving as an editor of the new American Law Review, reporting decisions of state supreme courts, and preparing a new edition of Kent's Commentaries, which served practitioners as a compendium of case law, at a time when official reports were scarce and difficult to obtain. He summarized his hard-won understanding in a series of lectures, collected and published as The Common Law in 1881.

Clifford Holmes was born in Nov in Amelia, St. Mary Parish County, Louisiana United States, and died in April 2016 in Panama City, Bay County, FL. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Clifford Holmes.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kenya D. Holmes.

Rhoda May (Kuykendall) Holmes was born on November 18, 1871 in Dennison, Clark County, Illinois United States, and died at age 60 years old on September 11, 1932 in Dennison. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rhoda May (Kuykendall) Holmes.

Arthur Eddie Holmes Sr. was born to Amos Harley Holmes Senior (born 1868) and Patience Grant (1869 - 1913). Both parents were born in Georgia. He had six siblings: John, Ophelia, William, Belle, Ruth, and Amos Junior. Arthur Holmes Sr. married Ada Lee Reid (1910 - 1944) and they had three children: two sons, Arthur Jr. and James Edward, and one daughter.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gaylord Holmes.

Born in alabama. Private in US army. Service start date 27 Oct 1939. Died VA Medical Center in Ohio. Buried Dayton National Cemetery, Section 16 Row 28 Site 13. Married February 20, 1937 in Covington CO, Alabama. 1940 census Andalusia, Covington CO, Alabama. Lloyd born alabama, age 26, finished 8th grade. Was a laborer in a textile mill. Wife Abbie, age 25, finished 7th grade, seamstress in textile mills. 1930 census father John A Holmes, age 59, born alabama, salesman, grocery store. Mother Belle, age 43, born alabama. Children Stewart h., 24, salesman grocery store, Marjorie M, 22, sales lady, dry goods store, Lloyd, 19, cutter shirt factory, Clarice, 9, female. Confirm parents names and I can do more searching in that direction.

Ophelia H (Holmes) Banion was born to Amos Harley Holmes Senior (born 1868) and Patience Grant (1869 - 1913). Both parents were born in Georgia. She had six siblings: John, Arthur, William, Belle, Ruth, and Amos Junior. Ophelia Holmes married "Charlie" Banion (born 1909 ) and they had a son, Charlie Brown Banion (died in 1998).

Patricia Marie Holmes, also known as Patricia Marie Goucher, was the child of Scott and Le'Andra Holmes. She had two sisters , Briana and Brittnee Holmes. She was Caucasian and, having been born in the state of Washington, she was a United States citizen. Patricia's headstone says "Dearest daughter, sister and friend - Until we meet again - P 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" See Patricia M Holmes: Obituary