Jennie Florella Holmes (née, Hurd; February 26, 1842 – March 20, 1892) was an American temperance activist and suffragist.

Jennie Florella Hurd was born on February 26, 1842, on a farm in Jersey County, Illinois, where she spent her early years.

[1][2] In 1859, she entered Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, where she continued her studies until 1861, when the pressing demand for teachers, created by the Civil War led her to take up that calling.

[1][3][2] Holmes, an advocate of temperance and equal political rights for both sexes, allied herself with these movements in Nebraska.

In the winter of 1881, she became a member of the first woman's suffrage convention held in the state, and worked for the amendment submitted at that session of the legislature.