Mr. Henry Holmes

On of the founding members of Park Street Church, Henry Homes was born in Boston on October 3, 1776. Becoming a wealthy hardware merchant in the firm Homes, Homer, & Bonner, the foundational meetings of the National Domestic Missionary Society were held in his home in 1826, a passion that was passed to his son Henry Augustus Homes who became a missionary in Constantinople from 1836-1850, later being named as the librarian of the New York State Library. The senior Mr. Homes was the only non-Baptist founder of the Evangelical Tract Society.

Mr. Homes died in 1845.

In the 1848 book The Aristocracy of Boston, the author writes of Henry Homes: “Mr. Homes was an orthodox congregationalist, of most extensive Christian benevolence. His charities and kindness always ready, and liberally in amount for every good object.”