Mary Emma Holmes

Mary Emma Holmes (, Smith; August 3, 1839 – May 18, 1937) was an American reformer, suffragist, and educator. She was the president of the Equal Suffrage Association of Illinois, and she represented the National American Suffrage Association in the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Holmes was a member of the Chicago Woman's Club, and was the chair of the Chicago YWCA's travelers' aid department, which had for its object the protection of girls at the region's depots. and moved to his field of labor in Berlin, Wisconsin. The failure of her husband's health during the first year of their married life made a change of business necessary, and both Rev. and Mrs. Holmes taught in the Berlin high school for six years. They were chosen members of the faculty of the Normal School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (now, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh), but soon after they began their work, but another health failure on the part of her husband made a change to a business life a necessity.

Widowed in 1907, Holmes became very active in clubwork.