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Holmes, S. W., Stockholm, was born in St. Albans, Vt., October 1, 1815. His father was Sheveric Holmes, a native
of Bennington, born April 24, 1784. He married in Georgia, Vt., Jerusha Baker, by whom he had seven children, six
of whom grew to maturity. In 1826 he and his family came to Stockholm and settled on a farm one and one half miles
west of Winthrop. Mr. Holmes was a farmer and lumberman. He was a Republican and held the office of high sheriff
of Franklin county, Vermont, for several years. He was also supervisor of Stockholm. He died July 28, 1872, and
his wife May 2, 1859. S. W. Holmes was eleven years of age when he came to Stockholm with his parents. He has spent
his life in farming, but at present lives retired at Winthrop. He married in Fairfield, Vt., June 24, 1847, Harriet
N. Burr, a native of that town and daughter of Col. Aaron Burr of Redding, Conn., a soldier in the war of 1812.
The wife of the latter was Rebecca Cook, by whom he had ten children, five still living. Colonel Burr was the only
child of Jabez (who died in 1825) and Mary (Bartrum) Burr. Mr. Holmes and wife have one child, Mary E., the wife
of A. N. Trussell of Minneapolis, Minn., and they have one child, Helen H. Mr. Holmes has always been a Republican
but has never desired public oflice. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church at Winthrop.
FROM:
Our County and it's people
A memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by: Gates Curtis
The Boston History Co., Publishers 1894
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