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of ISoah and Hanna Rhodes; and secondly, July- Si, 1837, to Caroline F. (Knox) Swan, widow of James Swan and daughter of Henry Knox, Wasliington's secretary of war. He published: The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation and Law (1810). He died at Portland, Maine, July 7, 1843.

HOLMES, Mary Jane (Hawes), author, was born in Brookfield, Mass.; daughter of Preston and Nancy (Olds) Hawes; granddaughter of Joel and Philadelphia (Thayer) Hawes and of Ezekiel and Lydia (Stevens) Olds. She was a precocious child, studying grammar at the age of six, teaching a district school at thirteen, and writing her fii'st article for publication at fifteen. She was married to Daniel Holmes, a prominent lawyer of Brockport, N.Y., where she made her residence. Her books attained an unusual degree of popularity, and in 1900 it was estimated that over two million copies had been sold. The titles of her published works include: Tempest and Sunshine (1854); The English Orphans (1855); The Homestead on the Hillside (1855); Lena Rivers (1856); Meadow Brook (1857); Dora Dean and Maggie Miller (1858); Cousin Maude (1860); Marion Gray (1863); Hugh Worthing- ton (1863); Darkness and Daylight (1864); The Cameron Pride (1867); Rose Mather (1868); Ethelyn's Mistake (1869); Mill Bank (1871); Edna Browning (1872); West Lawn (1874); Mildred (1877); Daisy Thornton (1878); Forest House (1879); Chateau d'Or (1880); Red Bird (1881); Madeline (1881); Queenie Hathertou (1883); Christmas Stories (1884); Edith Lyle (1885); Gretchen (1887); Bessie's Fortune (1888); 3Iar- guerite (1891); Dr. Hathern's Daughter (1895); Paid Rolston (1898); The Tracy Diamonds (1899), besides many articles written for syndicates and magazines.

HOLMES, Nathaniel, jurist, was born in Peterboro, N.H., Jan. 3, 1815; son of Samuel and Mary (Annan) Holmes; grandson of Deacon Nathaniel and Catherine (Allison) Holmes, and of David and Sarah (Smith) Annan; great- grandson of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Moore) Holmes, and a descendant of Natlianiel Holmes, who immigrated from Coleraine, Ireland, to Londonderry, N.H., with his family in 1740. He studied at Chester academy, Vt., and Eng- lish at the academy in New Ipswich, N.H., and was a student at Phillips academy, Exeter, N.H., 1831-33. He was graduated from Harvard in 1837, tutored in a private family in Maryland, studied at the Harvard law school, 1838-39, and was admitted to the Boston bar in 1839. He settled in practice at St. Louis, Mo., and was circuit attorney for the city and county of St. Louis in 1846; was counsellor of the board of public scliools, St. Louis 1853-54; counsellor of the North Missouri railroad company in 1863; and

was one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of Missouri, 1865-68. He was Royall professor of law at Harvard university, 1868-72, and then returned to St. Louis, Mo., and resumed his law practice, retiring in 18b3, and making his home in Cam- bridge, Mass. He was one of the organizers of the Academy of Science of St. Louis in 1856, and was cor- responding secretary and an editor of its Transactions, 1857- 83. He was elected a correspondent of the "K. K. Geolog- ischen Reichsanstalt " of Vienna in 1857, a fellow of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1870;

corresponding member of the Academy of Science of New Orleans in 1875, and of the Numismatic and Antiquarian society of Phila- delphia in 1881, and was an honorary member of the Bacon society, London. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1859. He wrote: Authorship of Shakespeare, advocating the Baconian theory (1866; enl. ed., 1886); Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself (1888). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 26, 1901.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, author, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29. 1809; son of the Rev. Abiel and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes; grandson of Dr. David and Temperance (Bishop) Holmes, and of Oliver and Mary (Jackson) Wendell, and a descendant of Jo'in Holmes, who settled at Woodstock, Conn., in 1686, and of Evert Jansen Wen- dell, who emigrated from Emden, East Friesland, Holland, and settled in Albany, N.Y., about 1640. His paternal grandfather was a captain in the British colonial army in the French and Indian war, and later served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary

army. His father, a graduate in theology from Yale, and an earnest Calvinist, was i)astor foi forty years over the First church, Cambridge. Mass. The religious training of Oliver's child- hood made a deep impression upon his sensi-