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IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
H. H. HOLMES
Henry Harrison Holmes was born in Pontiac, Illinois, on the 5th of March,
1874. He was the son of William Harrison Holmes and Aletha Beall Holmes.
When he was seven years old his parents moved to South Dakota and established the family home on a farm in Aurora county northwest of Mount Vernon, that state. He attended the country school while on the farm. Later the family moved to Mount Vernon and he attended the school there until he went to the Dakota Wesleyan University at Mitchell, South Dakota.
His first effort toward making a living was when as a young boy he rented
some land from a neighbor and tried farming for himself. As soon as he had
accumulated enough money in this way he purchased the meat market in Mount
Vernon. It was there he gained a thorough knowledge of cattle values, which
became an important factor in his later successful career in the live stock
business.
In 1900 he left Mount Vernon and went to Fulton, South Dakota, where he
bought a hardware store and a line of farm machinery and implements. While he
was in Fulton he was manager of a local telephone company and the Farmers
Co-operative Creamery Company. Two years later he returned to Mount Vernon and bought another hardware store, and a furniture store and an undertaking establishment.
In 1905 Mr. Holmes disposed of his holdings in South Dakota and moved to
Sioux City, Iowa, where he became connected with the Long & Hansen Commission Company, a live stock firm with which Mr. F. M. Hatch, a former business associate of Mount Vernon, had become identified through purchasing the interests of the retiring partner, Mr. Nicholas Hansen. Within a few months Mr. Holmes bought the interests of Mr. Wallace Long, who also wished to retire. The business was continued under the old firm name of the Long & Hansen Commission
Company.
Later, as the business increased, Mr. Holmes and Mr. Hatch bought one of the
leading commission firms in Chicago - the North Western Live Stock
Commission Company, and established a new firm by that name in South St. Paul, Minnesota, and another firm by the name of Long & Hansen in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
In 1898 Mr. Holmes was married to Miss Laura McDowell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William McDowell of Mount Vernon, South Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes were the parents of two children; a daughter, Gladys, and a son, Dean Harrison. Mr. Holmes was fifty years old at the time of his death, which occurred March 13, 1924, at his home, No. 3 Stewart avenue, Sioux City, Iowa.
Henry Harrison Holmes was a member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, the Sioux City
Consistory and Abu-Bekr Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S.; Sioux City Boar Club, the
Sioux City Country Club, the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce, the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange and the Sioux City Live Stock Exchange. For several years he
had been a director of the latter exchange and was active in all its work at
the time of his death.
Few men in the live stock business have been more successful from every
standpoint or have had a wider acquaintance or commanded more respect than Harry Holmes. He was an executive of more than ordinary ability and his advice was much sought by stockmen over the entire northwest, because of his keen
vision and foresight combined with a marked conservatism.
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