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H. Holmes's Interest In Medicine
H. H. Holmes was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire to a privileged, methodist family, his original name being Herman Webster Mudgett. Herman was deemed an intellectual at an early age, expressing interest in medicine. After he graduated highschool at age 16, he went straight to medical school, where he began to steal deceased bodies and used the bodies to make false insurance claims and even experimenting on them. Later when he graduated he moved to Chicago under the false alias Henry H.
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