Dates

• Existence: 1809 - 1894

Biographical History

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was a physician, poet, essayist, and novelist in Massachusetts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born on August 29, 1809 to Abiel Holmes and Sarah Wendell. He had a varied career as a physician, poet, essayist, and novelist. He attended Harvard College, where he had some legal training. He later received a medical degree from Harvard in 1836. He spent much of his career as a physician teaching at Harvard Medical School. He married Amelia Lee Jackson in 1840 and had two sons and a daughter. Holmes died in Boston on October 7, 1894.

Citation:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., 1860.

Report of a committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society on homoeopathy, 1850: p. 4 (O.W. Holmes)

WBIS, Mar. 29, 2013 (b. 1809, d. 1894)

Lord of all being, throned afar, 2000 : page 1 (words by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-94)

Wikipedia, via WWW, Dec. 16, 2013 (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; physician, poet, essayist, and novelist; b. Aug. 29, 1809 in Cambridge, Mass.; parents: Abiel Holmes and Sarah Wendell; attended Harvard College, attended law school; Harvard medical degree, 1836; taught at Dartmouth Medical School, 1838-1840; m. June 15, 1840 to Amelia Lee Jackson, three children; taught at Harvard Medical School, 1847-1882; died Oct. 7, 1894 in Boston, Mass.)

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