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JOHN TAYLOR HOLMES
[Welland Tribune, 16 August 1904]
Toronto has among its residents 173 veterans of the American Civil War, the oldest of whom says the News, is John Taylor Holmes, who is 80 years of age. The veterans have formed a Toronto post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Comrade Holmes, with all his 80 years, goes regularly for his seven mile walk every day. He jaunted out to High Park last Saturday morning bearing a huge knotted stick, and came back down Queen street with the swinging stride of a man one-half his age. He is one of the St. Catharines Holmes, and will be remembered by many of our readers as a visitor to his relatives the Sidey families at Welland, and also to Thomas Robinson, Wainfleet, with whose father he lived in his younger days.
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