Carl Fleischmann Holmes (1893-1984)

He was born in Cincinnati and graduated from the Sheffield School of Engineering at Yale University. He worked for the Fleischmann Yeast Company founded by his grandfather and retired as Treasurer. For many years he was President of the Holmes Foundation in Manhattan. He was married three times: In 1930, he married his first wife, Margaret Avis, of San Francisco, but the marriage was over by 1933 when he gave his address as 122 East 42nd Street in New York City. In that same year, at New York, he married his second wife Lemma, who had divorced her third husband, Kenelm Stanley Smith, in the same year. She was, "a prominent society lady" and daughter of "one of the most powerful statesmen" in the Ottoman Empire, Ahmed Izzet Pacha el-Abed. Her brother, Muhammad Ali Bay al-Abid, was Ottoman Ambassador to the United States and afterwards the first President of the Syrian Republic.

Carl and Lemma lived in England but were married for barely two years before she divorced him in 1935, siting "extreme cruelty". When she sued for control of a $300,000 trust fund in 1938, he claimed to have evidence that her second marriage to Jarmani Dass in India had never been dissolved. In 1938, Holmes was married again in Nevada to the actress Nancy Ryan who just hours earlier had divorced her previous husband, Daniel Hagood Haynes. Holmes sold his English property in 1937 and he and Nancy moved permanently to Bermuda before choosing to divide their time between a pair of homes in the Bahamas and The Farm House on Long Island, where he died without children.