page_title: Georgiana Klingle Holmes
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Georgiana Klingle Holmes / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Morris-Jumel Mansion This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000545
context_page_description: Georgiana Klingle Holmes was an American poet and painter. She founded the Arthur's Home For Destitute Boys and the LaRue Holmes Nature Lovers' League, both in memory of her sons, who died young.
context_section_description: Georgiana Klingle was born in November 4, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of George Franklin Klingle (1796-1840), M.D. and Mary Hunt Morris (1812-1897). Mary Hunt Morris was the daughter of William H. Morris and Catherine Tiers of New York City. She descended from  Lewis Morris, of Morrisania, Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Once widow, Mary Hunt Morris Klingle married John Haas, of Philadelphia, who raised Georgiana Klingle as his daughter. Georgiana Klingle father's ancestry is found in Upper Saxony. Hans George Klingle, her great-grandfather, arrived in the United States in the ship "Restoration" with his son, on October 9, 1747, and settled in Pennsylvania. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War her grandfather, George, resided in Chestnut Hill. Dr. Klingle was a man of literary and scientific reputation.
  She was educated in Philadelphia.
caption: Morris-Jumel Mansion
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