John Mcclellan Holmes (January 22, 1834 - June 21, 1911) was a Christian minister and author.
[2] Holmes graduated from Williams College in 1853,[1] and from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick, N.J. in 1857.
[4] In 1877 he became pastor of the State Street Presbyterian church in Albany, New York.
[1] He served as a member of the educational and missionary boards of the Reformed church, president of the general synod in 1876, a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian council at Edinburg in 1877, moderator of the Presbyterian synod of New York in 1884,[1] and a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian council at London in 1888[4] He was a trustee of Auburn Theological Seminary from 1886 to 1900, and director of the Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1888 to 1900.
[4] Holmes was at various times an associate editor of the Christian Intelligencer,[1][4] and was noted to have "contributed largely to the religious press".