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Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 - June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
He was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1783. In 1784, while ministering in South Carolina, he was recruited to be the minister at the Congregational Church in Midway, Georgia. He returned to New England to be ordained in 1785 and once for health reasons between 1786 and 1787, but returned to Midway and remained there until 1791. Holmes married Mary Stiles, the daughter of Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale. Mr. Stiles was the subject of a laudatory biography penned by Holmes.
In 1792, Rev. Holmes became the minister at First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1805, he published a history entitled American Annals. Amid a theological controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism, Holmes resigned from the ministry in 1831. He died June 4, 1837.
Holmes married Mary Stiles, daughter of Ezra Stiles, in 1790 and second to Sarah Wendell. By the second marriage, Abiel was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Works
- The Life of Ezra Stiles (1798)
- The History of Cambridge (1801)
- American Annals (1805)
References
White, G. Edward, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self (1993)
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