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HOMANS. HO MANS. Antietam, September 17, 1862, and in the foot at second Fredericksburg, May, 1S63 ; commissioned lieutenant-colonel, but not mustered, and finally was promoted to brevet-colonel U. S. volunteers. Mr. Holmes, on returning from the war, having chosen the profession of law, pur- sued his studies at the Harvard law school, then with Robert M. Morse, Jr., and later with G. O. Shattuck, Boston, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1866. He edited the twelfth edition of " Kent's Commentaries," since recognized as the standard edition of that famous work, also the "American Law Review " for three years. He then went into active practice with Shattuck & Munroe, the firm name being Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe. He gave at the Lowell Institute a course of lectures upon the common law, which were subsequently published in book form, and it was this work that placed him at once in the front rank of profound legal thinkers, giving him not only a national, but a world-wide reputation ; and it was this, undoubtedly, which led to his selection as professor in the Harvard law school in 1882, and in December of the same year to his appointment as associate justice of the supreme judicial court, which honorable position he still holds. In 18S6 Yale conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. Judge Holmes was married in Boston, June 17, 1S72, to Fanny Bowditch (Dix- well). They have no children. HOMANS, JOHN, son of John and Caroline (Walker) Homans, was born in Boston, November 26, 1S36. He fitted for college in the Boston Latin school, entered Harvard College, and was graduated in the class of 1858. Choosing the profession of medicine and surgery, he entered the Harvard medical school in 1 85 8, from which he was graduated M. D. in the class of 1862. Dr. Homans comes from old revolutionary stock, his grand- father, Dr. John Homans, having been a surgeon at Bunker Hill and during the revolutionary war. In 1862 he was appointed assistant-sur- geon, U. S. army (regulars), holding a commission till 1865. He was on General Banks's staff in the department of the Gulf, and in charge of St. James Hospital in New Orleans ; was afterwards medical inspector of the middle military division, on the staff of Major-General Sheridan, in 1864 and '65. He was also assistant-sur- geon in the United States navy in i86r and a portion of 1862, before he entered the army. He is surgeon upon the regular staff of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital, and a general surgeon in very active practice; consulting surgeon to the Carney Hospital, and the Children's Hospital ; is member of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, and numerous other societies connected with his profes- sion. JOHN HOMANS. Dr. Homans is Harvard University lec- turer on the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian tumors, and is one of the leading ovariotomists in the country, and although a visiting surgeon of one of our largest metropolitan hospitals, it is especially dur- ing the last sixteen years that his name has been connected with the practice of abdominal surgery. Up to the present time he has opened the abdominal cavity for the removal of ovarian or other tumors, or for other diseases and injuries, about seven hundred times. Dr. Homans was married in Boston, De- cember 4, 1872, to Helen Amory, daughter of William and Catherine Callender (Amory) Perkins. Of this union were six children : Robert, Katherine Amory, John Alden, Marion Jackson, Helen and William Perkins Homans.