A J Homes

HOLMES

Posted By: Tina Keister (email)
Date: 1/18/2006 at 20:35:14

A J Holmes, of the firm of Homes & Reynolds, one of the leading attorneys of Boone, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on March 2, 1843, and was raised there until twelve years of age, and then accompanied his parents to Palmyra, Wisconsin, in 1862 he entered the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin infantry as a private, and was mustered out to accept a commission in the Thirty-seventh Wisconsin, he saw hard service and was in many severe battles and was wounded at Stone River, he was taken prisoner at the blowing up of the mine at Petersburg, and confined in various Southern prisons for eight months, after he was mustered out of the United States service he returned to Wisconsin and attended school at Milton College, and pursued his legal studies at the State University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated in 1867, and came to Boone county the same year and was the first to open an office in the then new town of Boone, he started in life with a thorough preparation and a laudable ambition to succeed, and in this he has not been disappointed he is associated in business with L W Renolds, under the firm name of Holmes & Reynolds, he married Miss Emma J Folsom in 1878.

From the 1880 Boone County History Book