Henry A. Homes

Henry Augustus Homes (March 10, 1812 – November 3, 1887) was a librarian, diplomat, and missionary.

His earliest New England ancestor was William Homes, a school teacher at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, from 1686 to 1692, and afterwards a Presbyterian clergyman.

Ordination In 1835 he was ordained to the work of the ministry in the city of Paris, France, and from the years 1836 to 1850, held the position of a missionary of the American Board at Constantinople, Turkey.

He was the editor of valuable books, and wrote many articles for the Bibliotheca Sacra and the American Biblical Repository.

He was married to Anna Heath, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and by her had one child, a son.