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From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" <>
Subject: Re: [NYMONROE-L] RE: Biographical Sketch of Daniel HOLMES
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:51:10 -0600
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There was a second biographical sketch of Mary HAWES HOLMES also posted last night which discusses her many books, several of which are available online in free e-books.

Linda
in Costa Rica
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Welch
To:
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: [NYMONROE-L] RE: Biographical Sketch of Daniel HOLMES


The wife of Daniel Holmes, Mary Jane (HAWES) Holmes, who is briefly
mentioned below was, by far, the more famous of the two. She was the most
commercially successful female author of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. He romance novels sold more than 4 million hardbound copies. In
addition, many of them were serialized in magazines.


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda H. Gutierrez [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 2:26 AM
To:
Subject: Biographical Sketch of Daniel HOLMES

The following biography appears on page 535 in the

"History of Rochester and Monroe County New York From the Earliest Historic
Times to the Beginning of 1907" by William F. PECK, The Pioneer Publishing
Company, New York and Chicago, 1908.


Other surnames of interest: HALE-STUART, HALE, HAWES

Daniel HOLMES, now practically living retired, was the pioneer lawyer of
Brockport and for many years a prominent attorney of the Monroe county bar.
He is a native of West Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York, born September
11, 1828, and has therefore reached the seventy-ninth milestone on life's
journey. His parents were Daniel and Susan (HALE-STUART) HOLMES, natives of
Massachusetts, who, removing westward about 1812, settled in Ontario county,
New York, where they cast their lot with those who were reclaiming a
frontier district for agricultural uses. The father served his country as a
soldier in the war of 1812 and participated in the battle of Buffalo. The
maternal ancestry of Mr. HOLMES was represented in the Revolutionary war,
the grandfather, Thomas HALE, being a drummer boy at the battle of Bunker
Hill.



Daniel HOLMES was reared at Aliens Hill, New York, his father being
proprietor of a hotel at that place for a number of years. After mastering
the elementary branches of learning he prepared for college at the Brockport
Collegiate Institute and received his university training at Yale, which he
entered in 1846. He is numbered among the alumni of 1848, having been
graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts. Subsequently, in 1853, he
received from the University of Rochester the degree of master of arts, and
in the fall of the same year was admitted to the bar, for which he had
previously prepared. He immediately began the practice of his profession in
Brockport, where he has resided continuously since, having been in practice
here for more than a half century. He was the pioneer lawyer of the town and
his ability enabled him always to maintain a place in the foremost ranks of
its legal fraternity. In recent years, however, he has retired from active
practice to enjoy well-!
earned ease.



In early manhood Daniel HOLMES was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. HAWES,
of Brookfield, Massachusetts, of whom extended mention is made below. Theirs
was an ideal relation, their mutual love and confidence increasing year by
year as they met together the joys and sorrows, the adversity and
prosperity, the disappointments and the pleasures which checker the careers
of all. Closer grew their friendship as time went by, the desire of each
being always for the best interests and happiness of the other, but on the
6th of October, 1907, they were separated through the death of Mrs. HOLMES.



Mr. HOLMES still continues to reside in Brockport, where for many years he
has figured prominently in community affairs. For thirty years he served as
justice of the peace of Brockport, his decisions being strictly fair and
impartial, so that he "won golden opinions from all sorts of people." He was
also clerk of the village for twenty years and in community affairs was
actively and helpfully interested, and is secretary and treasurer of the
State Normal School at Brockport.



Mr. HOLMES is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Monroe lodge,
No. 173, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master. He also belongs to
Daniel HOLMES chapter, No. 294, R. A. M., and to Monroe commandery, No. 12,
K. T., of Rochester. He is senior warden of St. Luke's church at Brockport.
He is also a member of the Empire State chapter of the Sons of the American
Revolution and a member of the New York State Bar Association. He is one of
the oldest attorneys of Monroe county, and while his professional career
gained him rank with the leading lawyers of Brockport he has also been well
known because of his activity in connection with the interests bearing upon
the general welfare of society and the upbuilding and improvement of the
community.


*****

I am not related nor do I have any connection to any of the persons in the
above biography.

Linda
in Costa Rica
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys

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