HOLMES, FREDERICK HARVEY MARCUS (1885-1939)

HOLMES, FREDERICK HARVEY MARCUS, United Church minister, Chatham, 1931-39; b. Spencerville, Grenville Co., Ont., 21 Jun 1885, s/o Thomas N. Holmes and Ann L. Hearns; m. 1913, Mary Georgia Kimball, of Oromocto, N.B.; d. Chatham, 12 Oct 1939.

Frederick H. M. Holmes attended school in Ontario and became a public schoolteacher in that province. After teaching for two years, and also taking a business college course, he was appointed in 1906 to the commercial department of Mount Allison Academy. He later became a candidate for the Methodist ministry and finished both the theological and arts programs at Mount Allison with high standing. He was granted a BA in 1913 and an MA in 1914.

Holmes spent the summer of 1909 as a student minister at Tabusintac. He was ordained in 1913 and had his two first appointments on Methodist circuits at Nashwaak and St Stephen. He was then the minister of the prestigious Wilmot Methodist-United Church in Fredericton from 1921 until he was called to the pulpit of St Andrew's United Church, Chatham, ten years later. In 1930 he was granted an honorary DD by Pine Hill Divinity Hall. He was a member of the Masonic and Orange orders. He died of a sudden illness, at age fifty-four, leaving his wife, Mary G. Kimball, a daughter, and four sons as his survivors.