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Elias Burton Holmes was born into a middle-class Chicago family, the son of a banker. His interest in travel was sparked at the age of nine when his grandmother took him to hear a then-famous travel lecturer, [[John L. Stoddard]] (whom Holmes was to meet on a subsequent trip abroad).<ref name="iw"/>
In 1890, Holmes accompanied his grandmother on a trip to Europe and when he returned showed slides of his trip at the Chicago Camera Club, of which he was a member. Holmes wrote of this event: "To take the edge off the silence, to keep the show moving, I wrote an account of my journey and read it, as the [[stereopticon]] man changed slides."<ref name="iw">Wallace, Irving. "Everybody's Rover Boy". In ''The Sunday Gentleman'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965, p. 115.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>
Despite the success of this event, which grossed $350 for the club, it was not until several years later that Holmes decided to set himself up as a travel lecturer. In 1893, after sending out 2,000 invitations to a select group of Chicagoans, Holmes gave two sold-out talks about a recent trip to Japan.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
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