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John Simcox Holmes

John Simcox Holmes, born in 1868, became North Carolina's first State Forester in 1915 and served the state until 1945. He and his wife, Emilie Rose Smedes Holmes, made their home in Chapel Hill. In 1918 he helped Dr. J. M. Bell more than double the town's Red Cross War Fund quota, and in 1919 he and his wife led the south Orange canvass for Armenian relief.

Source: Documenting the American South: Annie Sutton Cameron. A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina.…

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  1. Chapel Hill more than doubles its Red Cross War Fund quota Assessed $500 in the Red Cross War Fund drive of May 1918, the Chapel Hill chapter raised it within a few days and turned in $1,156.60 by the drive's close, under Dr. J. M. Bell with J. S. Holmes. People: James Munsie Bell, John Simcox HolmesSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 16
  2. The Chapel Hill Red Cross signs 550 members in its 1918 Christmas Roll Call J. S. Holmes chaired the chapter's Christmas Roll Call of 1918, which secured 550 members. The school's Junior Red Cross auxiliary enrolled 310 in the same roll call, with every grade of the graded school at full membership. People: John Simcox HolmesSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 21
  3. Orange County raises $2,075.84 for Armenian relief An Armenian Relief campaign led by Dr. E. C. Branson ran from February 21 to March 6, 1919, and raised $2,075.84. Much of it came through the county's white and Black schools; Nellie Russell led Hillsborough Township. People: J. Cheshire Webb, Eugene Cunningham Branson, John Simcox HolmesSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 73

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