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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES
ARTIST, GEOLOGIST, ARCHEOLOGIST AND ART GALLERY DIRECTOR.
1846-1930
The subject of this sketch was born December 1, 1846 in the home of his parents, Joseph and Mary Heberling 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 occasion 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 regarded as prophetic of his career as an explorer and
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*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 publications of the Smithsonian Institution, the two Geological Surveys, the Bureau 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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