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Conway F. Holmes, youngest child of Nehemiah and Mary
Holmes, was born in 1864 in Kansas City, Missouri, and received his
education in the local schools and the business college at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Like his brother, Walton, he entered the
street railway service while yet a lad, and in 1886 became
superintendent of the Grand Avenue Cable Company. With is
brother he brought about the first street railway consolidation and
the subsequent merging of all the Kansas City lines into the
Metropolitan Street Railway system, of which he became general
superintendent and later general manager. In addition to his
duties with the Metropolitan, he was president of the Kansas City
Electric Light Company, a director in the Kansas City State Bank, and
a vice-president and member of the Executive Committee of the American
Street Railway Association.
In 1885 he married Miss Maud Gregory,
daughter of Kansas City's first mayor, and has one son, named William
Gregory.
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