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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  HENRY HOLMES. Among the few surviving settlers of Nobles county who came prior

to railroad days and who suffered the hardships incident to those days is Henry

Holmes, who has resided continuously on his farm there since the spring of 1871.

Mr. Holmes is an Englishman by birth, having been born at Sandgate, Kent county,

in November, 1846. His parents were William and Mary Elizabeth (Darel) Holmes,

the former dying in England July 5, 1882.



  It was on the 29th day of August, 1868, that Mr. Holmes gave up a seafaring

life and turned his endeavors to less strenuous occupations. For a, short time

he worked in a pipe works factory in Pittsburg and in a boiler shop at St.

Louis. During the summer of 1869 he traveled over a large part of the country,

working in the harvest fields of Illinois, Missouri and about Rochester and

Garden City, Minn. Thereafter he resided in Blue Earth county until the spring

of 1871. On the sixth day of May of that year he came to Nobles county and

joined the little colony that had settled in the Graham Lakes country. Taking a

homestead claim of eighty acres on section 30, he began the life of a farmer,

which he has ever since followed. He has added to his original homestead claim

by the purchase of eighty acres in section 31. Mr. Holmes has served several

years as a member of the township board of supervisors and has also been a

member of the school board.



  In Blue Earth county on Feb. 19, 1872, Mr. Holmes was married to Miss Agnes

Larkin, who was born in Green Lake county, Wis., in 1855. She is the daughter of

Patrick and Elizabeth (Milligan) Larkin. To Mr. and Mrs. Holmes has been born

one child—Mary Elizabeth.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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