Benjamin Kaplan

Benjamin Lorimor Kaplan (February 19, 1936 - May 19, 2005) is the father of Adrian D. Holmes and late husband of Vivienne Holmes. He worked as a production engineer at Honeywell Corporation for many years, and also worked as an accountant and moonlighted as a professor briefly as well. He was born in near Mitchell, South Dakota, but relocated with his family to Smithtown, New York, when he was two years old after his father, Meyer Kaplan, had accepted a job working as groundskeeper at the former Miller Estate.