Homes, William

Born: 1820-02-06 Boston, Massachusetts

Died: 1869-01-19 New Haven, Connecticut

Flourished: 1843 to 1864 Saint Louis, Missouri

William Homes, minister, journalist, and attorney, studied at Illinois College from 1838 to 1840, then attended Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1840 to 1843. In the latter year, he moved to St. Louis where after his ordination in the Presbyterian Church, he served as a minister for several years. Beginning in 1856, he worked on the editorial staff of the Missouri Republican for about a year and a half. Having read law, he then accepted a position as an attorney for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad in 1858. Homes was simultaneously a partner in the St. Louis law firm of Jones, Sherman & Homes. He continued to write occasionally for the Missouri Republican, including articles on an 1864 trip to California, Arizona, and Mexico on mining business. In politics, he was first a Whig, then later a Democrat. Homes married Julia Rebecca Salter in 1843 and was survived by two children.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Morgan and Scott Counties, Ills. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1889), 236; General Catalogue of Lane Theological Seminary 1828-1881 (Cincinnati: Elm Street, 1881), 20; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Morgan County, 15 June 1843, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 30 June 1858, 2:1; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 6, St. Louis, St. Louis County, MO, 19; St. Louis Directory 1860 (St. Louis: R. V. Kennedy, [1860]), 251, 267; The Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 20 January 1869, 2:1.