New York Times
January 10, 1900
Page 7

Dr. Thomas Holmes.

Dr. Thomas Holmes, the discoverer of an embalming fluid, died Monday at his home, 267 South Ninth Street, Brooklyn. He was eighty-two years old. He lived in Brooklyn for sixty years. Dr. Holmes was born in New York City, but his parents moved to Williamsburg while he was a boy. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York, and after his graduation he was for six years attached to the Coroners' office as examining physician. During the war of the rebellion he embalmed 4,028 bodies. He had in his home at the time of his death a large number of specimens of embalming work, and it is said that some time ago he discovered a fluid which he believed would destroy the germs of contagious diseases. For three years before his death he was practically out of business, devoting all his time to the study of embalming.