| Summary: | H. H. Holmes wrote the following note on the back of the photograph, addressing it to Thomas M. Owen, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History: "Herewith a likeness of Thomas Galphin Holmes on horseback Tensaw Ala. a grandson of Dr. Thomas Galphin Holmes of Baldwin County whose name is so familiar to you. In the buggy sits Dr. M. Coghlan who is a grandson by marriage of Dr. Holmes. The house is antebellum, the home of Thomas Galphin Holmes II, my father, settled by Dr. Holmes in 1803. You see how the Holmes medical dynasty holds in Baldwin."
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