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'''Julia Annie Archibald Holmes''' (February 15, 1838 – January 19, 1887) was an American [[suffragist]], [[abolitionist]], [[mountaineer]] and [[journalist]]. She was the first woman to climb [[Pikes Peak]].
==Biography==
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After climbing Pikes Peak, Holmes and her husband moved to [[Taos, New Mexico]], where she worked as a correspondent for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''.<ref name=hike/> She had four children before divorcing her husband in 1870 and relocating to [[Washington, D.C.]], where she worked in the Spanish Correspondence Division of the [[Bureau of Education]], the first woman member, eventually advancing to the division chief.<ref name=women/><ref name=douglas>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19990616&id=aIwyAAAAIBAJ&pg=6494,4305475|title=First White Woman to Climb Pikes Peak|first=June|last=Howe Jewett|date=June 16, 1999|work=[[Lawrence Journal-World]]|access-date=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
Holmes was heavily involved in the [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women's suffrage movement]] in the 1860s and 1870s. She was a secretary for the [[National Woman Suffrage Association]] and spoke at the first National Woman Suffrage Association convention in 1869.<ref name=ppld/><ref name=douglas/> She was involved in setting up associations for the movement in Washington, D.C., and, to aid the suffrage campaign, she attempted to register to vote in 1871.<ref name=fame>{{cite news|title=10 to Be Inducted into Colorado Women's Hall of Fame|first=Carol|last=McGraw|work=[[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|The Gazette]]|date=March 19, 2014}}</ref> She was a friend of [[Susan B. Anthony]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Women's Rights Wends West|date=March 3, 1986|work=El Defensor Chieftain}}</ref>
Holmes died in 1887. She was posthumously inducted into the [[Colorado Women's Hall of Fame]] in March 2014.<ref name=fame/>
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