Reverend Dr. Abiel Holmes

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Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian. He was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Biography

Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian.

Holmes was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He was the son of David Holmes and Temperance Bishop. He graduated from Yale College in 1783. In 1784, while ministering in South Carolina, he was recruited to be the minister at the Congregational Church in Midway, Georgia. He returned to New England to be ordained in 1785 and once for health reasons between 1786 and 1787, but returned to Midway and remained there until 1791. Holmes married Mary Stiles, the daughter of Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale. Mr. Stiles was the subject of a laudatory biography penned by Holmes.

In 1792, Rev. Holmes became the minister at First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1805, he published a history entitled American Annals. Amid a theological controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism, Holmes resigned from the ministry in 1831 and the church chose a Unitarian minister to replace him. Holmes died June 4, 1837.

Holmes married Mary Stiles, daughter of Ezra Stiles, in 1790 and second to Sarah Wendell. By the second marriage, Abiel was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Abiel Holmes (1763 - 1837)

Rev. Dr. Abiel Holmes

Born 24 Dec 1763 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Son of David Holmes Jr. and Temperance (Bishop) Holmes

Brother of Bathshua (Holmes) Bugbee, David Holmes III, Lathrop Holmes M.D., Leonard Holmes and Temperance (Holmes) Williams

Husband of Mary (Stiles) Holmes — married 29 Aug 1790 in Connecticut

Husband of Sarah Oliver (Wendell) Holmes — married 14 Feb 1801 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Father of Ann Susan (Holmes) Upham and Oliver Wendell Holmes

Died 4 Jun 1837 at age 73 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Profile last modified 29 Jun 2022 | Created 11 Apr 2014

Sources

Find A Grave: Memorial #85579079
Wikipedia: Abiel_Holmes
Wilcox, Albert. Genealogy of Rev. John Hubbard of Meriden, Conn. (Horton Print. Co., Meriden, Conn., 1930) Page 28.
Gray, George Arthur (1908), Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury 1594-1908, Boston: David Clapp and Son.
The Life of Ezra Stiles (1798)
The History of Cambridge (1801)
American Annals (1805)