John Mcclellan Holmes (January 22, 1834 - June 21, 1911) was a Christian minister and author.

Career

Born in

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, Holmes was the son of Edwin Holmes, an eminent minister of the Reformed church,James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, eds., ''Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Grinnell–Lockwood'' (1898), p. 242. and Sarah McClellan Holmes.Calvin Durfee, ''Williams Biographical Annals, Part 4'' (1871), p. 609. Holmes graduated from

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in 1853, and from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick, N.J. in 1857.''The New York Observer'' (June 29, 1911), Volume 90, p. 836. Holmes was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church for forty years, first at the Reformed Church of East Williamsburg,

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, from July 1857 to October 1859, then at the Lee Avenue Reformed Church of Brooklyn from 1859 to October 1865, when he was installed over the First Reformed Church, of Hudson, New York. In 1870, he received a

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degree from

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.George Arthur Gray, ''The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury: 1594-1908'' (1908), p. 170-171. In 1877 he became pastor of the State Street Presbyterian church in Albany, New York. He served as a member of the educational and missionary boards of the Reformed church, president of the general synod in 1876, a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian council at Edinburg in 1877, moderator of the Presbyterian synod of New York in 1884, and a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian council at London in 1888 He was a trustee of

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from 1886 to 1900, and director of the

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in New York from 1888 to 1900. Holmes was at various times an associate editor of the ''Christian Intelligencer'', and was noted to have "contributed largely to the religious press". It was similarly noted that " ny of his sermons have been published". Holmes retired in 1897.

Personal life

In May 1860 he married Frances Van Vranken, daughter of Rev. Samuel A. Van Vranken, D. D., with whom he had four children. Frances died on October 30, 1874, and on December 3, 1879, Holmes married Jennie Sanders Van Deusen, daughter of Peter and Susan (Livingston) Van Deusen. He died at

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, and was buried in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmes, John McClellan 1834 births 1911 deaths American Calvinist and Reformed ministers Calvinist and Reformed writers People from Livingston, New York Williams College alumni