Oliver Wendell Holmes Remembered as Autocrat Wit and Pioneer
A retrospective portraits Holmes as a small yet magnetic figure in Boston society. He shaped Atlantic Monthly and the Saturday Club with Emerson Lowell and Agassiz, living amid Harvard Square privilege, surrounded by literary peers, and achieving lasting impact without major vices or setbacks.
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Herman Melville
G. P. R. James
Lenox
Miss Sedgwick
Fanny Kemble
Hawthorne
Poe
Sargent
Beverly Farms
Dorothy Q
Dorothy Quincy
Edward Jackson
Holmes
John Hancock
Atlantic
Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic Club
Emerson, Longfellow
Lowell
Underwood
JH. Rockward Hoar
Motley
Edmund Quincey
New World
Porter’s Tavern
North Avenue
Cambridge
Porter’s
The
Dr. Holmes
Felton
Whipple
James Freeman Clarke
Agassiz
Parker's
Harvard Square
Boston
Dlolines
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Autocrat Holmes Receives Warm Boston Reception 1893
A Boston crowd packed the Vendome on Feb 23 1893 for a literary gathering honoring Dr Holmes and other authors and the National Educational Association. Notables like Higginson Capen Adams and Mrs Howe attended as Holmes read improvised verses and recalled his teaching career.
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Boston
Holmes
National Educational Association
Vendome
Elizabeth Phelps-Ward
Henry O. Houghton
Edwin Ginn
Colonel Higginson
The
Muses
Yaacob Strauss
Charles Follen Adams
President Capen
Tufts
Harvard
Alice Freeman Palmer
Helen A. Shafer
Wellesley
Julia Ward Howe
Charles F. Adams
Boyhood Home of Dr. Holmes in Cambridge Remembered
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes recalls his boyhood home in Cambridge between Kirkland Street and North Avenue. He describes the gambrel roofed house built circa 1725, its four rooms per floor, and its destruction after Harvard acquisition. Holmes recounts portraits of early inhabitants, clergy visitors, and the land’s uneven soils and elm trees marking the spot.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Law School
Harvard
Kirkland Street
North Avenue
College Yard
Cambridge
Benedict Arnold
Connecticut
Fort Ticonderoga
Committee of Safety
Gav Arnold
Washington
Drake
Holmes
Jabez Fox
Jarvis
Stewart Hastings
Wendell
Harvard College
Bunker Hill
Ward
Langdon
University
College
Boston
Iti
Eliphalet
Pearson
Jove
David Osgood
Medford
John Foster
Brighton
Charles Stearns
Lincoln
Thaddeus
West Cambridge
Jonatha Newton
Voltaire
Elijah Kellogg
Lock Bason
Isaac Smith
Mmbonga
New England
Sone
Peck
Brooklyn
Park Street
Summer Street
Crotona
Delilah
Eblis
College Green
Tod
Holmes Family and Civil War Hero Judge Holmes Son
The article recounts Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr born 1841 Harvard graduate who became a famed jurist and Civil War veteran. It covers his wartime wounds at Ball's Bluff Antietam and Fredericksburg, his legal career at Dartmouth and Harvard, and his famed literary work and role in the Boston Sanitary Commission alongside his wife Amelia.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
Supreme Court
Harvard
Plato
Intercollegiate
Fort Sumter
Lincoln
Leutenant
Massachusetts
Colgnel
Lee
Ball’s Bluff
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Robert T. Morse
Chandler, Shattuck & Co
Suffolk Bar
United States Court of Claims
American Law Review
Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe
Review
Kent
Lowell Institute
Judge Holmes
Supreme Bench of
The Wife of Holmes Emphasizes Quiet Domestic Grace
The article portrays Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes as a devoted wife and mother whose life centered on home. It notes her wartime service with the New England Woman's Auxiliary Association of the US Sanitary Commission and her influence on her husband. Her simplicity, faith, and fidelity are highlighted as the backbone of the Holmes household.
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Chauncy and
Bedford Streets
Elizabeth Peabody
Dr. Holmes
Sanitary Commission
Isa Gray
Samuel Parkman
Manton, Eastburn
Sarah Williams
Abby May
Bowditch
Summer Street
Wendell
Boylston Street
Oliver Wendell Holmes
New England Woman’s Auxiliary Association
United States Sanitary Commission
Charles Jackson
Supreme Court
James Jackson
Patrick T. Jackson
Dr Holmes Celebrated as Physician and Teacher of Anatomy
The gathering honored Dr. Holmes on his seventieth birthday with President Eliot of Harvard praising his primary work as a scientist and educator. Holmes trained in medicine after studying law, studied in Paris, earned an M D in 1836, co-founded The Tremont Medical School, and served as a Dartmouth anatomy professor before his Boston practice and hospital duties.
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Eral Hospital
Pittsfield
Harvard University
Holmes
Dartmouth
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard
Reynolds
Jeffreys
Randall
James Jackson
J.C. Warren
Dartmouth College
Tremont School
Eliot
Boston
Walter Channing
John Ware
Winslow Lewis
G. W. Otis
Europe
Ecole de Medicine
Paris
Louis
Cambridge
Central Court
Jacob Bigelow
Edward Reynolds
David Humphreys Storer
Tremont Medical School
Dartmouth Medical School
Broad
Wharf Streets
Massachusetts
Holmes Wit and American Humor in Aristocratic Dinners
A biographical sketch praises Dr. Holmes as a witty American whose repartee enlivened dinners and salons. It recalls puns and quips about American lawyers, Eve and drinking, cigars, and a canny dig at long voyages with Agassiz as a humorous anchor.
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Holmes
Artemus Ward
John Phenix
Dr. Holmes
Tom Hood
Douglas Jerrold
Lord Coleridge
England
Siddons
Statesman
Fox
Professor Agassiz
Liebig
Dr Holmes's Beacon Street Home Highlighting Autocrat Study
The Boston residence at 296 Beacon Street is a modest five story brick house facing the river. Its Autocrat study features a large bay window with views of seven towns and Memorial Hall across the river. The rest of the home houses Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and his family.
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Boston
Dr. Holmes
Beacon Street
Matthew Arnold
James Russell Lowell
England
Aldrich
James
Freeman Clarke
America
Medford
Malden
Chelsea
Memorial Hall
Oliver Wendell Helmes, Jr
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr and Family Heritage Highlighted
The passage traces Rev Abiel Holmes born 1768 in Woodstock Conn to Yale trained theologian and Cambridge pastor. It notes his publications and role in American history. It also covers Oliver Wendell Holmes born 1809 in Cambridge, his Harvard College 1829 class, and his youthful appearance reflecting his future intellect.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Abiel Holmes
Woodstock
Conn
Yale College
First Congregational Church
Cambridge
Mass
Massachusetts Historical Society
President Stiles
Annals of America
Stiles
Oliver Wendell
Boston
Phillips Academy
Andover
Harvard
Story of Old Ironsides Dr Holmes Poem Origin
Dr Holmes wrote Old Ironsides during a quiet interval after leaving law and before medicine. The Boston Advertiser first printed the lyric that made him known as a poet. He channeled anger over the Constitution being condemned at Charlestown Navy Yard into patriotic verse.
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Ames
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Dwight
Columbia
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Old South Church
Preservation Fund
Old South
Boston Museum
Autograt
Boston Medical Library Association
Richard M. Hodges
Chadwick
Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Boylston
Association
Justin Windsor
George B. Shattuck
Bell
Charles 0
Stickney
Jim Jay
Jim
Rufus Choate
Curtis
Hoss Shay
Thomas Taylor
Burbank’s Hall
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