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any kind of an opportunity presented itself; and appealing to 
his cousin, Colonel J. I. Holmes of Columbus, he was advised to 
visit Steubenville and find out whether Mr* E. F. Andrews, an 
artist of repute, would he willing to give him lessons. He 
found Mr. Andrews occupying an elegant mansion with a commodious 
studio and a very agreeable gentleman in every way, but who was 
not inclined to take pupils. It is a noteworthy fact that many 
years later Mr. Andrews and he came together in Washington, 
Andrews as Principal of the Corcoran School of Art, and Holmes 
as ourator of the national Gallery of Art. Mr. Andrews died 
in October 1917, and Holmes had the 'privilege of presenting a n 
address in his honor on the occasion of the dedication of a 
memorial tablet to him in the Corcoran Gallery. Later it fell 
to Holmes 1 lot to install in the national Museum a collection of 
art oo^ects left by Andrews and presented to the Museum by Mrs. 
Andrews as a permanent memorial to him. 
Returning home disappointed from his visit to Mr. 
Andrews in Steubenville, and with the art idea pretty well dissi- 
pated, Holmes resolved to try his lueE with a school of higher 
graiie than that of Eopedale and spent a single term at the Will- 
oughby Collegiate Institute on Euclid Avenue extended, Cleveland, 
Onio, beginning March SO, 1867. It happened, curiously enough, 
that his room mate here was John M. Wilson, a cousin of Woodrow 
Wilson, later President of the United States. Among other class- 
mates ?/ere Henry A. Clark o-f uv-io r> 
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