Background
Holmes, William Henry was born on December 1, 1846 in Harrison County, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Heberling) Holmes.
Holmes, William Henry was born on December 1, 1846 in Harrison County, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Heberling) Holmes.
Graduate McNeely Normal College, 1870, Doctor of Science, George Washington University, 1918.
Normal school teacher, 1871-1872. Assistant, 1872-1880, geologist, 1880-1889, United States Geological Survey. Curator department aboriginal pottery, United States National Museum, 1882-1893.
Archæologist Bureau American Ethnology, in charge of explorations, 1889-1898.
Curator anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, and professor anthropic geology, University of Chicago, 1894-1897. Head curator department anthropology, 1898-1902.
Curator prehistoric archæology, 1903, and National Gallery of Art, 1907, United States National Museum. Chief Bureau American Ethnology, October 1902-1909.
Head curator, anthropology, United States National Museum, 1910-1920.
Curator, National Gallery of Art, 1910-1920. Director, since 1920. United States delegate 1st Pan-American Scientific Congress, Santiago, Chile, 1908-1909.
Chairman organizing committee International Congress of Americanists, 1915.
Chairman section of anthropology, 2d Pan-American Congress, 1915. Chairman managing committee School of America Archæology.
President Washington Academy Sciences, 1917-1918. Chairman commission on anthropology of National Research Council, 1917.
Home: Washington, Distric.
Married Kate Clifton Osgood, October 1883 (died 1925). Children: Osgood, William Heberling.