Henry Holmes, oldest child of Hon. Uriah Holmes (Y. C. 1784) and Esther (Austin) Holmes, of Litchfield, Conn., was born in Litchfield, 14 Febr., 1795. His brother Uriah graduated at this College in 1816.
He settled in Durham, Conn., as a physician, where he remained until 1833, spending the winter of 1830-31 as a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in N. Y. City. The rest of his life was passed in Hartford, Conn., as a practicing physician. He was also for many years city coroner. For the last few months of his life he was an inmate of the Retreat for the Insane, where he died 31 July, 1870, at the age of 75. He was unmarried.
(Yale Alumni Obituary Manuscript)
Henry Holmes, oldest child of Hon. Uriah Holmes (Y. C. 1784) and Esther (Austin) Holmes, of Litchfield, Conn., was born in Litchfield, 14 Febr., 1795. His brother Uriah graduated at this College in 1816.
He settled in Durham, Conn., as a physician, where he remained until 1833, spending the winter of 1830-31 as a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in N. Y. City. The rest of his life was passed in Hartford, Conn., as a practicing physician. He was also for many years city coroner. For the last few months of his life he was an inmate of the Retreat for the Insane, where he died 31 July, 1870, at the age of 75. He was unmarried.
(Yale Alumni Obituary Manuscript)
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