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unusual facts about Guy E. Holmes


Guy E. Holmes

He spent 20 years on the faculty of VanderCook College of Music, and wrote over 200 marches and overtures, among other works.


Adoniram J. Holmes

In 1882, Holmes won the Republican nomination in the new district, and won the general election, and was elected to the 48th United States Congress.

Bayou Academy

After the United States Supreme Court decided Alexander v. Holmes in 1969, ordering the desegregation of public schools in the South, the all-white Bayou Academy doubled its enrollment for the 1970 school year.

Carter Harrison, Sr.

Harrison's career and assassination are closely connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer H. H. Holmes) in The Devil in the White City.

Chanson de geste

Urban T. Holmes, Jr. A History of Old French Literature from the Origins to 1300.

Edwin Holmes

Edwin N. Holmes, head football coach for the Middlebury College Panthers football team, 1915–1917

Eksi Ekso

Their third record entitled "Archfiend" based on the life of 19th century serial killer H.H. Holmes H. H. Holmes is due to be released on May 7, 2013.

Ephraim P. Holmes

In August 1952 he assumed command of the attack transport Sanborn, which conducted landing exercises at Vieques, Puerto Rico and Onslow Beach, North Carolina as part of Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet.

From August 5, 1964 to June 3, 1967, he was director of Navy program planning and scientific officer to the Center for Naval Analyses in the office of the chief of naval operations.

Ernest Vandiver

Under Vandiver's administration, a United States District Court ordered the admission of two African-American students, Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, to the University of Georgia.

Fizzle Like a Flood

In 2005, Ernest Jenning offered a (re-)mastered reissue of Golden Sand and the Grandstand with all-new artwork by Frank Holmes (who was the artist for the 1966 Beach Boys album Smile).

Frank Holmes

Frank E. Holmes, chief executive and chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors

Frank J. Holmes

He has contributed album or sleeve artwork for their works The Smile Sessions (2011) and Songs Cycled (2013).

Gadsden Purchase

When the secession proposal failed, Gadsden, working with his cousin Isaac Edward Holmes, a lawyer in San Francisco since 1851, and the California state senator Thomas Jefferson Green, attempted to divide California in two.

Genta H. Holmes

Genta Hawkins Holmes (born September 3, 1940 in Anadarko, Oklahoma) is an American professor in diplomacy and former American foreign service officer and ambassador.

George M. Holmes

The George M. Holmes Convocation Center, an 8,325 seat arena in Boone, North Carolina, is named for Holmes, who was instrumental in bringing in state funds for the project.

H. H. Holmes

The producer and director of the film, John Borowski, also wrote a book on Holmes titled The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes.

H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer

Produced over a four-year period, the film highlights locations such as Holmes' childhood home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and the courtroom in Philadelphia where the "trial of the century" was held.

H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer is a 2004 biographical documentary film directed by John Borowski.

Hamilton E. Holmes

The Atlanta native has several landmarks named in his honor including the Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary School in East Point, Georgia; Hamilton E. Holmes Drive (Highway 280) in Fulton County, Georgia; and the H.E. Holmes MARTA station in Atlanta.

Harry T. Hayward

Jack El-Hai has stated that, if Harry Hayward's admissions are true, then he predates Dr. H. H. Holmes as America's first documented serial killer.

HiFi Superstar

The album, Mister Bolin's Late Night Revival, features songs from other great musicians, such as Jeff Pilson from Foreigner, Eric Martin from Mr. Big, Randy Jackson from Zebra, and Derek St. Holmes from Ted Nugent Band.

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

J. A. Chapman

In June 1867, mayor Thomas J. Holmes, who had been appointed the previous year after the resignation of Henry Failing, was elected to a full term, and then died the following morning.

Michael Holmes

Michael W. Holmes, professor of Biblical Studies and Early Christianity, Bethel University

Paul Reed Smith

Smith would often bring his guitars backstage at concerts, and eventually got his break when Derek St. Holmes, of the Ted Nugent Band, agreed to try out #2, the second guitar Smith had ever made.

Pehr G. Holmes

Holmes was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the 80th United States Congress.

Holmes was elected as a Republican to the 72nd United States Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses from (March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1947).

Randi Kaye

After several changes at the network and the departure of previous weekend mornings anchor T. J. Holmes, she took over as permanent weekend anchor.

Richard Holmes

Richard E. Holmes (born 1944), first African-American student to enroll at Mississippi State University

Rob Grange

The nucleus of Rob Grange, Derek St. Holmes, and Cliff Davies for songwriting, as well as arranging, was forever broken.

Robert E. Holmes

In 1978, Governor Rhodes appointed Holmes to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated when Frank Celebrezze was elected as Chief Justice.

Rock Will Never Die

Derek St. Holmes - rhythm guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "I'm Gonna Make You Mine"

Sidney Carr Mize

On January 30, 1937, Mize was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Edwin R. Holmes.

Songs Cycled

Artwork for the album's singles were contributed by a variety of visual artists which include Klaus Voorman, Ed Ruscha, Frank Holmes, and Art Spiegelman.

T. J. Holmes

Holmes also anchored significant news stories, including Saddam Hussein’s execution in 2006, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008, and the terrorist attacks at the Glasgow Airport in 2007.

Holmes secured some of the first stories from the survivors of the US Airways Flight 1549 that crash landed in the Hudson River in January 2009.

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

The hero is Sigerson Holmes (Wilder), the younger and "smarter" brother of Sherlock "Sheer-Luck" Holmes.

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes of the College of William & Mary.

Theophilus H. Holmes

After Holmes was relieved as head of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General Kirby Smith made him head of the District of Arkansas.

He planned a coordinated attack in conjunction with Sterling Price, John S. Marmaduke, James Fleming Fagan, and, Governor of Arkansas, Harris Flanagin.

In March 1864, Holmes was relieved as head of the District of Arkansas.


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