HOLMES, GEORGE

HOLMES, SIMON HUGH, lawyer, journalist, politician, and office holder; b. 30

third-book division at Winchester Street School and earning $421.84. In June 1881 businessman-reformer William Holmes

 objects). Interest has continued ever since. The most detailed discussion of Edenshaw’s art was published by Bill Holm in 1981. He was the

picaresque novel by his good friend Stephen Crane. Barr’s most enduring work was The triumphs of Eugène Valmont (London, 1906), a parody of Conan Doyle’s Holmes and other gentlemanly sleuths in the

 2305 enjoyed significant successes, which culminated in 1886 in the Knights’ triumphs in a number of important strikes. The mayoralty victory of reformer William Holmes

reviewed in the most prestigious journals and its contents would be incorporated into major syntheses, such as William Henry Holmes’s “Aboriginal pottery of the eastern United States” (1903), Stewart Culin’s

. Psalm Blake,” as one journalist later dubbed him, became increasingly involved in efforts to reform society. In 1874, for example, Blake, William Holmes

support of the Telegram was credited by some with the success of William Holmes Howland* in his election as mayor in 1886