Georgiana Klingle Holmes

She founded the Arthur's Home For Destitute Boys and the LaRue Holmes Nature Lovers' League, both in memory of her sons, who died young.Hans George Klingle, her great-grandfather, arrived in the United States in the ship "Restoration" with his son, on October 9, 1747, and settled in Pennsylvania.Her taste ran in a groove not often entered by young authors, children's stories with a moral to leave an impression.Her collection of poems entitled "Make Thy Way Mine" (New York, 1876) was made after repeated letters from interested strangers in different parts of the country.La Rue Holmes, despite young in age, was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and correspondent for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.