Background
Born in Livingston, New York, Holmes was the son of Edwin Holmes, an eminent minister of the Reformed church, and Sarah McClellan Holmes.
Missionary pastor author Christian minister
Born in Livingston, New York, Holmes was the son of Edwin Holmes, an eminent minister of the Reformed church, and Sarah McClellan Holmes.
Holmes graduated from Williams College in 1853, and from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick, New Jersey
In 1857. In 1870, he received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Rutgers College in New Brunswick. lieutenant was similarly noted that "any of his sermons have been published". Holmes retired in 1897.