Louise Holmes

Louise Holmes was born in Guilford County, North Carolina. She received her AB from Greensboro Female College and an AM from National Normal University in Ohio. She received her MD from the Woman’s Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1896.

Dr. Holmes became the Chief of the Gynecology Clinic at the Woman’s Medical College in Baltimore from 1897 to 1898. She joined the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1898.

In 1900, Dr. Holmes was appointed the assistant physician to the Springfield Hospital for the Insane in Sykesville, MD. She was in charge of the new group of buildings for female patients.

Along with a number of her fellow Woman’s Medical College alumnae, including Lilian Welsh, Mary Sherwood, Louise Erich, and Flora Pollack, she was an attending physician at the Evening Dispensary for Working Women, located in South Baltimore.

After practicing in Baltimore for several years, Dr. Louise Holmes moved to Mississippi in 1902. In November of that year, it was reported that Dr. Holmes had typhoid fever and had been taken to Birmingham, Alabama. There are no reports after that.