Ancestry of Dr.
H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Herman Webster "H.H. Holmes" Mudgett

View famous kin of Herman Webster Mudgett

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Levi Horton Mudgett 
  • Mother:
  • Theodate Page Price   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 May 1861 
  • Birth Location:
  • Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 May 1896 
  • Death Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Delaware, Pennsylvania 
  • Notes: 

  • aka Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. Infamous Chicago serial killer who operated a hotel near the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Erik Larson's bestselling "The Devil in the White City" chronicled his crimes during the fair.

• Sources for Herman Webster "H.H. Holmes" Mudgett

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/30/2011).
  • ² Larson, Erik, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, New York: Crown Publishers (2003).
  • ³ Mudgett, Mildred D. and Bruce D. Mudgett, Thomas Mudgett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his Descendants, Bennington, Vermont: n. p. (1961), 100.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "H. H. Holmes", (accessed 09/30/2011).