FRANK HOLME
July 28, 1904
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Frank Holme, the artist, died at Denver yesterday morning 
at 8:45 o'clock.  Mr. Holme who had lived in Phoenix since a 
year ago last fall, left here for Denver about a month ago, 
hoping that the climate of that region might prolong his life 
a few weeks, but those who saw him on the night of his 
departure did not believe that he would live to reach his 
destination.  Not long after his arrival in Denver a 
telegram was received from his wife who was in Chicago 
saying that she had been sent for to go to the bedside 
of her husband.

During his brief stay in Phoenix Mr. Holme made himself a 
part of the community and there was no one in it more 
generally beloved.  He came here a sufferer of tuberculosis 
which had already reached an advanced stage.  There was for 
a time an appararent improvement of his condition and his 
friends hoped that he might not have come here in vain.  
But for six months before his departure his decline was 
steady and gradual.  Most of the time of Mr. Holme here 
was spent on a ranch near the city surrounded by 
similarly afflicted newspaper men, artists and actors 
and he passed many enjoyable hours with them.

In his illness he was never idle.  Before he left the east, 
fellow artists, actors and journalsts formed a syndicate to 
assist him in the prosecution of his work.  The Bandar Log 
Press was organized and from it was issued the "Poker 
Rubaiyat" and a series of stories by George Ade.  Mr. 
Holme, by the way, had made some of the illustrations 
of Ade's Fables although the greater part of this work 
had been done by the famous John T. McCutcheon.  Mr. 
Holme gave an interesting series of chalk talks at the 
Dorris Theater in this city.   He also performed an 
illustration for the Republican newspaper of the hanging 
of Rentaria and Hildalgo at Prescott a year ago.

Mr. Holme was born at Corinth West Virginia in 1868 and was 
educated in the public schools of Keyser of the same state.  
He worked on a country newspaper until 1884 and on a civil 
engineering corps a year later.  He became connected with 
the Wheeling Register as an artist and reporter in 1885 
and remained with that journal for two years.  The 
succeeding two years he was with the Pittsburg Press 
and it then that he first came into public notice as a 
newspaper illustrator by his delineation of the scenes 
of the Johnstown flood.  He was subsequently connected 
with the Chicago Saturday Blade, the Chicago Times, 
the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Post, the 
Chicago Chronicle and the Chicago Daily News.  He 
started the Chicago School of Illustration which is 
still in existence under the managment of Mrs. Holme.