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Holmes (OLIVER WENDELL an Mass Aug He)

OLIVER WENDELL, an Mass., Aug. 29, 1809. He was grad- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES uated at Harvard. He began the study it for that of medicine. In 1839 he became Professor of Anatomy and 1 HOLMES Physiology in Dartmouth College, N. H., but resigned to devote himself to practice in Boston. In 1847 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at Harvard. He wrote voluminously both in prose and verse. His chief works, besides several volumes of poems and treatises on medicine, are: "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"; "The Professor at the Breakfast Table"; and "The Poet at the Breakfast Table"; "Elsie Venner"; "The Guardian Angel"; "A Mortal Antipathy"; and memoirs of Motley and Emerson. He died Oct. 7, 1894.