The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-08-16
Dr. Enos Holmes.

called forth in our community expires. |
sions of genuine sorrow. He was SO
well known and so highly esteemed that |
his sudden death caused great grief
among his many friends and the pro-
fonndest sympathy for his family. DIR. |
Holmes was born in Tuscarawas (now
CarroD county, Ohio, on January 18th,
1921. He has led so active life and
been 30 prominently In the public vision
that most of us thought him older than
this. AS early as April 18th, 1888, he
was present ut the organization Of the
Highland County Medical Society, being
at that time a student OF medicine. How
many members of that first society OF
able men are living we do not know,
but believe all are now dead except the
venerable DR.. S. J. Specs. DR.. Enos
Holmes was son OF Enos H. and Mary
Wilkin Holmes. The father of DIR.
Holmes was born in Pennsylvania and
removed to Ohio with his parents in
the early pioneer days and DR.. Enos
Holmes was the fourth of family OF
twelve children. DIR. Holmes in his
life of work and energy and the children
who survive him could reflect with pride
on their ancestry. They were Scotch.
Irish, descended from the Holmes of
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the
HufTs and Doddridges of Virginia. DR..
Holmes comes from family of Metho-
dist ministers and of physicians, there
being ten doctors OF the name in his i'm
mediate relationship. His SOD, DR.. Ben
jamin Holmes, will keep the medical
record in continuous succession, and his
son Edward is a minister in the Metho.
dist connection.
DR.. Enos Holmes passed his early life
upon farm, and until he was seventeen
years of age his education was obtained
at the ordinary log school.house com.
mon at that time, and confined. to the
winter months when the active labors
of the farm were suspended. He had
early decided to adopt the medical pro.
fession, and in 1887 commenced reading
in that science at Leesburg, Highland
county, Ohio, near which place his father
had settled in 1881. As already stated
he aided in 1888 in the formation OF the
first medical society in the county. In
the year 1913, after having completed a
thorough course of medical studies and
received his diploma with the degree OF
M. D., he commenced the practice of
his profession at New Petersburg, in this
county. pr. Holmes was close student,
not only in his profession but was fond
OF general literature and great admirer
OF the higher works in poetry, philoso.
ply and metaphysics, and being o care
full observer OF men and current events
became one OF the most valuable OF citi-
zens and most companionable and inter-
esting of associates. We find him at the
age OF twenty-five with his diploma and
equipped for his practice which he at
once obtained, but with him Moro,yhness
was more important than immediate
gains, and hence he again in the winter
OF iS47 and lS4S attended lectures at the
first session OF the Startling Medical Col.
lege at Columbus, Ohio, and graduated
from that institution in lSiS. He did
not in the meantime, however, relin-
quish his professional labors, but con,
tinued to prosecute them in connection
with his studies.
DIR. Holmes practiced with great sue
ut Dnk o1,,, nd
was known as brave, upright, consci
entious physician, as well as an enter
prising, public spirited citizen, and thil
character he brought with him to Hills
boro where he removed iu that year
and where for thirty-two years he has
heen in possession OF large and ex
tended practice in this and adjoining
counties, both as a physician and surgeon
He has had and held until his untimely
death on the bright August afternoon o
last week, the entire and we'll meritet
confidence OF this community. Yhos
who knew him best, learned not only Il
respect him, but to seek his society
Firm in his convictions, yet never intol
Grant, he was the type OF the cultured
physician and afable gentleman. A
he was without dogmatism or vanity n,
one could ever have his self. love offend
ed. but could learn something always 9
value from DR.. Holmes. His dignit
and ease OF manner were inbred and h
was warm.hearted and impulsiye, Gen
erous and sympathetic by nature, h
possessed all those traits which attracte
rather than repelled. DR.. Holmes stoo
in the highest ranks of the medical pre-
fession and in the esteem of his brethren
During the late Civil War he served b
the appointment OF Governor Tod as L,
amining Surgeon, and while acting in tn,
capacity was stationed at Young's Poil
and Milliken's Bend on the Mississippi
and at various places in Kentucky an
Ohio. During the whole war and Il
some years after he was engaged in thel
medico.Dilitary duties. AS stated, d
Enos Holmes was from Methodist ar
pestry and his father, Enos I
Holmes, was of devout and earne'
nature and imbued with fervent relil
ious ZEAL This father was an ardei
aud and efficient laborer in the churcl