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     John Holmes. An attorney of Cambridge.² He was born on 29 March 1812.¹ He was the son of Rev. Abiel Holmes and Sarah Wendell.¹ John Holmes died on 27 January 1899 at the age of 86 unmarried.¹

     John Holmes was born in 1664 in Milton, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of David Holmes and Jane (Unknown).¹ John Holmes married Hannah Newell in 1690.¹ John Holmes died in 1713 in Woodstock, Connecticut.¹

     Dr. Lathrop Holmes was born on 7 May 1768.¹ He was the son of Captain David Holmes and Temperance Bishop.¹ Dr. Lathrop Holmes died in 1801 lost in a shipwreck.^1,2

     Leonard Holmes was born on 17 April 1770.¹ He was the son of Captain David Holmes and Temperance Bishop.¹

     Liberty Holmes was born on 3 April 1776.¹ She was the daughter of Captain David Holmes and Temperance Bishop.¹

     Margaret Holmes married Lewis Wood on 29 July 1593 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.¹

     Mary Jackson Holmes was born on 17 January 1802.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Abiel Holmes and Sarah Wendell.¹ Mary Jackson Holmes married Dr. Usher Parsons on 23 September 1822.¹ Mary Jackson Holmes died on 14 June 1825 at the age of 23.¹

     Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The poet. He was born on 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^2,3 He was the son of Rev. Abiel Holmes and Sarah Wendell.¹ He was a descendant of John Holmes, who settled at Woodstock, Conn., in 1686, and of Evert Jansen Wendell, who emigrated from Eraden, East Friesland, Holland, and settled in Albany, N.Y., about 1640. His paternal grandfather was a captain in the British colonial army in the French and Indian war, and later served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary army. His father, a graduate in theology from Yale, and an earnest Calvinist, was pastor for forty years over the First Church, Cambridge. Mass.

The religious training of Oliver's childhood made a deep impression upon his sensitive and poetic nature and from early manhood he was an aggressive Unitarian in direct opposition to the Calvinism of his father. He first attended a "dame school," kept by Mrs. Prenriss, and from his tenth until his fifteenth year he continued his education at a school in Cambridge-port, under Winslow Biglow, where he had as classmates Richard Henry. Dana, Margaret Fuller, and Alfred Lee, afterward bishop of Delaware. From Cambridge he was sent to Phillips academy at Andover, Mass., with the hope that he might incline to the ministry. There he made his first attempt at rhyme in the translation of the first book of Vergil's Æneid? He was graduated from Harvard in 1829 with William H. Channing, Prof. Benjamin Pierce, James Freeman Clarke, the Rev. S. F. Smith, and Benjamin R. Curtis. He roomed in Sloughton ball; was a frequent contributor to college publications; wrote and delivered the poem at commencement, and was one of sixteen of that class whose scholarship admitted them to the Phi Beta Kappa society. His cousin, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner and John Lothtop Motley were in attendance at Harvard, although not his classmates. He attended the Dane law school in 1899, remaining one year, and in that year devoted more the to verse writing than he did to Blackstone. In 1830, on reading a newspaper paragraph to the effect that the frigate Constitution was condemned by the navy department to be destroyed, he wrote on the impulse of the moment "Old Ironsides" which appeared first in the Boston Daily Advertiser, and quickly travelled through every newspaper in the United States, saving the vessel from destruction and bringing fame to the author. The following year he studied medicine at a private school under Dr. James Jackson, and in 1833 studied in the hospitals of Paris and London, spending his vacations in travel. He returned to Cambridge in December, 1835, received the M.D. degree from Harvard in 1836, and at once commenced his professional career. The same year he published his first volume of poems, which contained forty-five pieces. He received three of the Boylston prizes for medical dissertations and the three essays were published in 1838. He was professor of anatomy and physiology in Dartmouth college, 1838-40.

He bought a house in Montgomery place, which afterward became Bosworth street, and there his three children were born: His wife died at their Beacon street home in 1888. In 1843 he published an essay on the "Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," and on this rests his claim to having made an original and valuable discovery for medical science, which called forth at the time a most hostile argument from the two leading American professors of obstetrics, Professors H. L. Hedge and C. D. Meigs, of Philadelphia. He was appointed Parkman professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard University Medical school in 1847, and occasionally overstepped the strict boundaries of these departments to give instruction in microscopy, psychology and kindred subjects. He relinquished his medical practice and was dean of the medical school, 1847-53. In 1849 he built a house at Pittsfield, Mass., upon the old family place on the road to Lenox, in a township which had belonged to one of his Dutch ancestors in 1735, and there spent his summers until 1856, having as neighbors and associates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, G. P. R. James, Herman Melville, Miss Sedgwick and Fanny Kemble. In 1859 he delivered in several cities a course of lectures on the English Poets of the Nineteenth Century, twelve of which were given before the Lowell Institute. Dr. Holmes was a favorite with the lecture bureaus, and had no lack of engagements; and in his medical lectures at Harvard the last period was assigned to him, because he alone could hold the attentlon of his exhausted audience, listening to the fifth consecutive lecture. As a lecturer he was interesting, original and stimulating. He was wont to speak of occupying not a "chair," but a "settee" of medicine. He invented the arrangement of the stereoscope, afterward universally used, but obtained no patent for an article from which he might have made a fortune, "not caring," as he expressed it, "to be known as the patentee of a pill or of a peeping contrivance."

He was one of the founders of the Atlantic Monthly in 1857, and gave the magazine its name, contributing to it a series of conversational papers entitled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), which contained some of his best poems. This was followed by a second series, The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), and after a long interval, appeared The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872). He contributed to the Atlantic the serial novels: Elsie Venner (1861); The Guardian Angel (1867); A Mortal Antipathy (1885); Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887); Over the Teacups (1890). He was identified with the magazine more closely than any other person, and for a longer period. On Dec. 3, 1879, the editors gave a breakfast in his honor, he having passed his seventieth birthday, and Dr. Holmes read the poem The Iron Gate, written for the occasion. He removed from Montgomery place to a house on Charles street, on the riverside, in 1867, and in 1870 to Beacon street, where he lived the rest of his days, making Beverly Farms his summer home. He resigned his professorship at Harvard in 1882, and was immediately made professor emeritus, a rare distinction for Harvard to confer. From that time he lived a retired life in Boston, but continued his writings, "full of the same shrewd sense, wise comment and tender thought" that characterized them from the start. He made a second visit to Europe in 1886, with his daughter, and was everywhere warmly welcomed. He spent most of the time in England and Scotland, where he received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford university, and that of LL.D. from Edinburgh. He was often called "our poet of occasion," being always ready when called upon to contribute a poem or an essay, giving the best his genius afforded. His writing never wholly weaned him from the medical profession, which he loved strongly because he loved human nature. Besides the works already mentioned, he prepared with Dr. Jacob Bigelow, Marshall Hall's Theory and Practice of Medicine (1839); and is the author of: Lectures on Homoeopathy and its Kindred Delusions (1849); Report on Medical Literature (1848); Currents and Countercurrents in Medical Science (1861); Borderland in some Provinces of Medical Science (1862); Soundings from the Atlantic (1864); Mechanism in Thoughts and Morals (1871); Memoir of John Lothrop Motley (1879); Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884); Before the Curfew (1888); poetry: Urania (1846); Astrea (1850); Songs in Many Keys (1861 ); Songs of Many Seasons (1875); The Iron Gate and Other Poems (1880). His poems were subsequently collected into three volumes under the title: The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by John Torrey Morse, Jr. (1896), and Life of Holmes, by Emma E. Brown (rev. ed., 1895.)⁴ Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes married Amelia Lee Jackson, daughter of Judge Charles Jackson and Frances Cabot, on 15 June 1840 in King's Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts.^2,5 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes died on 7 October 1894 in 296 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 85.^2,3 The burial service, held at King's Chapel, was conducted by the Rev. E.E. Hale and he was buried at Mount Auburn.⁴

     Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. U.S. Supreme Court Judge. He was born on 8 March 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson.¹ He was educated in the Boston schools and was graduated at Harvard (class poet) in 1861, while a volunteer soldier in the 4th battalion of infantry at Fort Independence. He was commissioned in the 20th Massachusetts volunteers as lieutenant; and was severely wounded at Bali's Bluff, Va., Oct. 21, 1861; at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862, and at Marye's Heights, Va., May 3, 1863. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1863, but was not mustered in, as the regiment was too much reduced to permit it. He served as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Horatio G. Wright from Jan. 29, 1864, until he was mustered out, July 17, 1864, with the rank of captain. He was graduated at Harvard law school, 1866, and in 1867 was admitted to the bar and began practice in Boston, Mass. He was instructor in constitutional law at Harvard law school, 1870-71; edited the American Law Review, 1870-73; lectured on common law before the Lowell Institute, 1880; was professor of law at Harvard law school, 1882-83; justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, 1882-99, and became chief justice in August, 1899. He became a justice of the U.S. Suprelne Court, Dec. 4, 1902. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1886 and from Harvard in 1895; and was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He edited: Kent's Commentaries (12th ed., 1873), and is the author of The Common Law (1881); Speeches (1891, 1896), and various articles contributed to professional journals.² Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. married Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, daughter of Epes S. Dixwell, on 17 June 1872.¹ Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died on 6 March 1935 at the age of 93.¹

     Rebecca Holmes married Thomas Amory.

     Sanford Holmes was born on 11 December 1765.¹ He was the son of Captain David Holmes and Temperance Bishop.¹

     Sarah Lathrop Holmes was born on 27 November 1805.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Abiel Holmes and Sarah Wendell.¹ Sarah Lathrop Holmes died on 6 November 1812 at the age of 6.¹

     Temperance Holmes was born on 14 June 1774.¹ She was the daughter of Captain David Holmes and Temperance Bishop.¹

     Commander Thomas Holmes was born in 1852 in Brooke, Norfolk.² He married firstly Henrietta Louisa Howes in 1883 in Morningthorpe, Norfolk, There were two children of this marriage.³ Commander Thomas Holmes married secondly Agnes Edith Marie Elisabeth Symonds, daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds GCB and Prestwood Mary Wolrige, on 15 April 1891 in All Saints', Babbacombe, Torquay, Devon.¹ Commander Thomas Holmes and Agnes Edith Marie Elisabeth Symonds appeared in the 1901 census at Chelsea, London. He is noted as a retired commander R.N. and an Inspector of Life Boats.² Commander Thomas Holmes died in September 1933 in London.⁴

     Thomas Symonds Holmes was born on 22 May 1892.² He was the son of Commander Thomas Holmes and Agnes Edith Marie Elisabeth Symonds.¹ Thomas Symonds Holmes was killed in action on 11 November 1914. At the age of 22 Second Lieutenant, Queen's West Surrey Regiment (attached to the Buffs, East Kent Regiment.)¹

     Agnes Holmested married George Gouinlock.¹

     Lydia M. Holsinger was born in December 1857 in Michigan. She was the daughter of Conrad Holsinger.¹ Lydia M. Holsinger married Franklin Parsons Sewall, son of Samuel Moody Sewall and Hannah H. Johnson, on 23 November 1873.¹

     Abner C. Holt was born in February 1826 in New Hampshire.² He married Ann Maria Pollard.³

     Ella M. Holt was born on 4 September 1851 in Concord, New Hampshire.² She was the daughter of Abner C. Holt and Ann Maria Pollard.^1,3 Ella M. Holt married Charles H. Sewall, son of Stephen Sewall and Rhoda Ann Hoyt, on 21 October 1875 in Concord, New Hampshire.¹ Ella M. Holt died on 9 March 1931 in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of 79.³

     Katharine Holt was the daughter of Edmund Holt.² Katharine Holt is also recorded as Katherine Hoult.³ She married Rev. Richard Mather, son of Thomas Mather and Margaret (Unknown), on 29 September 1624 in Bury, Lancashire.⁴ Katharine Holt died in 1655 in Bury, Lancashire.⁴

     Miriam Holt was born on 23 December 1740 in York, Maine.² She married Nicholas Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall and Hannah Kelly, on 1 January 1763.² Miriam Holt died in 1811 in York, Maine.²

     Priscilla Holt married Nathan Chandler 1st. in 1729.¹

     Walter Alfred Holt was born on 28 September 1867 in Harrisburg, Oregon.² He married secondly Frances Elizabeth Warren, daughter of Frank Manley Warren and Anna Sophia Bates Atkinson, on 7 April 1926.¹ Walter Alfred Holt lived at 867 Lovejoy Street, Portland, Oregon.² He died on 4 August 1936 in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 68.³

     Alfred Hanson Holter was born on 28 December 1877 in Olive Branch, Clermont County, Ohio.^1,2 He was the son of Alfred Hanson Penn Holter and Evaline Amanda Apple.¹ Alfred Hanson Holter married Teresa Agnes Clauson, daughter of Emanuel M. Clauson and Mary E. Sheridan, on 12 August 1908 in Hamilton County, Ohio.^1,3 Alfred Hanson Holter died on 7 December 1940 in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, at the age of 62.²

     Alfred Hanson Penn Holter was born on 10 August 1847.^1,2 He married Evaline Amanda Apple, daughter of John Wesley Apple and Aseanath Martin Cleveland, in 1877.¹ Alfred Hanson Penn Holter died on 9 March 1906 at the age of 58¹ and is buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, Olive Branch, Clermont County, Ohio.²

     Aseanath Eloise Holter was born on 26 November 1883 in Ohio.^1,2 She was the daughter of Alfred Hanson Penn Holter and Evaline Amanda Apple.¹ Aseanath Eloise Holter married Leonard Edwin Hauck in 1908.^1,3 Aseanath Eloise Holter died on 14 November 1953 in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, at the age of 69.²

     Irma Ann Holter was born on 4 December 1879 in Batavia, Ohio.¹ She was the daughter of Alfred Hanson Penn Holter and Evaline Amanda Apple.¹ Irma Ann Holter married Dale Kennedy Parrott, son of John S. Parrott and Mary Kennedy, on 18 March 1900 in Clermont County, Ohio.^1,2 Irma Ann Holter died on 14 February 1964 in Washington, District of Columbia, at the age of 84.

     Matilda Holterman was born in 1858. She married John McKnight. Matilda Holterman died in 1932.