BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HMRY HOULES 
ARTIST, GEOLOGIST, ARCHEOLOGIST AMD ART GALLERY DIRECTOR. 
1846-1930 
The subject of this sketch was horn December 1, 1846 
in the home of his parents, Joseph and Mary Heberling Holmes, 
near the city of Cadiz, Ohio, the home farm beiug one of the sub- 
divisions of the original grant to his grandfather in 1800. The 
house was on the Cadiz St. Clairsville road, four and one-half 
miles south of Cadiz. As recorded in Colonel Holmes r work, n The 
American Family of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes, rt he represents the 
eighth generation of this family in America.* 
The earliest memory of Mr. Holmes is of the occasion 
when his father and mother took him each by a hand and led him 
into the garden to show him and let him taste the first ripe 
strawberries of the season. This episode was followed by numer- 
ous personally directed exploits in gardens and orchards which 
may be regarded as prophetic of his career as an explorer and 
*For the family history see Colonel Holmes 1 book, "The American 
Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes/ 1 by Col. J. T. Holmes, Columbus, 
Ohio, 1915. For details of the professional career of Mr. 
Holmes see publications of the Smithsonian Institution, the two 
Geological Surveys, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the U. S. 
Rational Museum, the Rational Gallery of Art and the Field 
Columbian Museum, 1872-1927. The list of his publications in- 
cludes 217 numbers. 
