Elias Bellows Holmes was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

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Born in Fletcher, Vermont

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, Holmes attended the district schools and St. Albans Academy.
He taught school.
He studied law at Pittsford, New York

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He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1830.
He moved to Brockport, New York

Brockport, New York

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, in 1831 and commenced the practice of law.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits and transportation.
He engaged in running canal packets between Rochester and Buffalo 1840-1855.
He was one of the promoters and constructors of the Rochester &.
Niagara Falls Railroad and a director until it merged with the New York Central Railroad.

Holmes was elected as a Whig

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 to the Twenty-ninth

29th United States Congress

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 and Thirtieth

30th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849).
He was not a candidate for renomination.
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He died in Brockport, New York

Brockport, New York

Brockport is a village located in the Town of Sweden in Monroe County, New York, USA. The population was 8,103 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from Hiel Brockway, an early settler....

, July 31, 1866.
He was interred in City Cemetery.

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