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Clergyman, educator. A pastor and educator, Holmes was born near Spartanburg on September 9, 1847, the second child of Zelotes Lee Holmes, who had pastored several Presbyterian churches in Laurens County and organized the First Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg. His mother, Catherine Nickels, was the daughter of a Laurens County physician and farmer. In 1859 […]