Scope and Contents Lothrop Turner Holmes was born in Plympton, MA on March 29, 1824, son of Martin and Mary Turner Holmes. He married Elizabeth Howland Washburn of Kingston on June 4, 1848, and died on October 3, 1899. According to an obituary notice published in the October 14, 1899 issue of the Old Colony Memorial: “Mr. [Lothrop T.] Holmes was born [sic] and spent most of his life in Kingston, except when following his trade, a molder, [in an iron foundry] at Providence, R.I. He also worked at factories...