HENRY AUGUSTUS HOMES. 



At a memorial meeting of the Albany Institute, held on the 6th 

 day of December, 1887, in commemoration of Henry A. Homes, 

 LL. D., who died on the 3d day of November, 1887, the following 

 papers were read: 



3Sn QTCemoriam. 



Henry Augustus Homes was born in Boston on the 10th day of 

 March, 1812. He was of the royal blood of New England, sprung 

 from one of those sturdy families whose roots run back into the heroic 

 ages of our history. His father was a wealthy, benevolent Boston 

 merchant, a pillar of the old Park street church, devout, upright, 

 generous and just. His mother was a noble example of New England 

 womanhood, full of intelligence, kindliness and piety. Out of the 

 earnest, refining influences of such a home, at the early age of ten, 

 young Homes was sent to Andover to prepare for college; and in 1826, 

 when only fourteen years of age, he entered Amherst College. 



He pursued his course in college with such success as he craved. 

 He was not ambitious for the ordinary distinctions of a college career, 

 and cared still less for those which depend on that mysterious quantity 

 called popularity. He read much and thought more and, although 

 he carried off few of the honors for which men strive in college as 

 elsewhere, he did not fail to gain those more difficult because more 

 intangible and greater honors which come unsought. He was regarded 

 by his classmates as well as his teachers as a boy of unusual mould. 

 He had a certain unique popularity, in which respect for his manly 

 qualities and an appreciation of his striking intellectual personality 

 were perhaps the largest ingredients. He won his share, too, of those 

 college friendships, which abide with a man through life, and these 

 were a source of unfailing pleasure and inspiration to him to the end. 



