Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

American writer and physician.

Physician and author.

American physician, professor, author and poet.

This is Oliver Wendell Holmes the writer, father of the famous jurist of the same name.

American writer.

American poet and physician.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) was an American jurist and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States (1902-1932). Prior to his service as Supreme Court justice, Holmes served as associate justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1882-1899) and Chief justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1899-1902). In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt named Holmes to the United States Supreme Court on the recommendation of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Holmes has been one of the most widely cited Supreme Court justices in history: the "clear and present danger" test in the decision of the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, in which the court determined that the Espionage Act did not violate the freedom of speech under the First Amendment, serves as a well-known example. Holmes believed in judicial restraint and respected the validity of legal precedent. He served until he was 90 years old. (Fox; McBride, PBS, 2006). For more information, see: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/capitalism/robes_holmes.html and http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/capitalism/landmark_schenck.html).

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American humorist and poet who also served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School.

Essayist, poet, teacher of anatomy.

Physician, poet and essayist of Boston.

Holmes was an essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy. Aldrich was a poet, novelist and short story writer, and editor of Every Saturday (1865-1874) and The Atlantic Monthly (1881-1890).

Poem written by Holmes, although never claimed by him, composed for a pamphlet printed for the inauguration of Jared Sparks as president of Harvard College, 20 June 1849.

Holmes, American writer and physician. He was the father of the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. by the same name.

Homes was an essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy.

Author, physician, educator, and dean of Harvard Medical School.

American man of letters.

Writer and physician, of Cambridge, Mass.

American physician and writer.

Holmes graduated from Harvard in 1829, taught anatomy and physiology, and served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School.

Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time.

Holmes was an essayist, poet, lecturer, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, and leader in the Unitarian movement.

Holmes was an American essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy. He received his MD degree from Harvard in 1836 and was a professor of anatomy and physiology (and later Dean) at the Harvard Medical School.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American poet, prose writer, lecturer, physician, and a professor at the Harvard Medical School from 1847-1882.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a central figure in 19th century America and a key member of New England society. A doctor, long-time Harvard anatomy professor, medical scholar, and author, Holmes is well-remembered for his poem, Old Ironsides, and his collection of essays, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. His medical essays represented significant contributions to germ theory, and his views on social and political issues were influential. His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became a renowned Supreme Court Justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, teacher of anatomy, and writer.

Holmes (1809-1894) was an American essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy. He received an M.D. degree from Harvard in 1836 and practiced medicine for 10 years, then taught anatomy for two years at Dartmouth College. In 1847 he became professor of anatomy and physiology (and later Dean) at the Harvard Medical School.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was an American author and educator and was father to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935). The former is the author of numerous essays on medical, civic, literary, and academic subjects as well as the inventor of the hand stereoscope.

Holmes was an American essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy. He received an A.B., Harvard College in 1829 and a M.D. degree from Harvard in 1836 and practiced medicine for 10 years, then taught anatomy for two years at Dartmouth College. In 1847 he became professor of anatomy and physiology (and later Dean) at the Harvard Medical School.

Holmes was a writer, physician, poet, and educator.

American essayist, poet, teacher, physician.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American humorist and poet who also served as Dean of Harvard Medical School.

Holmes was an American essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy. He received an A.B, degree and M.D. degree from Harvard in 1826 and 1836, and practiced medicine for 10 years, then taught anatomy for two years at Dartmouth College. In 1847 he became professor of anatomy and physiology (and later Dean) at the Harvard Medical School.

Holmes was an essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy.

American writer and poet.

Holmes was an essayist, poet and teacher of anatomy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American poet, prose writer, lecturer, physician, and a professor of the Harvard Medical School from 1847-1882.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a physician and man of letters.

He was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1809. He received his B.A in 1829 from Harvard University and the M.D., 1836. He was appointed professor of Anatomy at Dartmouth (1838-40) and at Harvard (1847-82). Holmes practiced medicine in Boston and wrote several medical pamphlets. His first volume of poetry was published in Boston, 1836, and followed by more verse, several novels, and various essay series, among them "The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table" (1857). He was the father of Supreme Court jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935). Oliver Wendell Holmes died in 1894.

American essayist, poet, lecturer, teacher of anatomy, and medical writer. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809; died in Boston, Oct. 7, 1894. Graduated from Harvard College in 1829. Received medical degree from Harvard in 1836, and began practice of medicine in Boston. In 1847, appointed Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Harvard Medical School. Major contributor to Atlantic Monthly (established 1857), which included first publication in serial form of some of his best-known works, beginning with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.

(Cont.) Published voluminously, his printed writings (prose, poetry, and medical) including: Homeopathy, and Its Kindred Delusions; The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever; Poems; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; The Poet at the Breakfast-Table; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; The School-Boy; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A Moral Antipathy; John Lothrop Motley; One Hundred Days in Europe; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; Before the Curfew; and many occasional pieces and periodical contributions.

(Cont.) The Boston firm of Ticknor and Fields and its successors published a number of titles by Holmes.

Scientist, teacher, lecturer, essayist, writer.

Holmes was born August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following his graduation from Harvard in 1829, he studied at the law school for a year. He gave up law in favor of a career in medicine. He rounded out his training at the Harvard Medical School with 2 years of study in Paris, 1833-1835, where he learned new techniques and approaches in medicine, reflected in two important early papers, "Homeopathy, and Its Kindred Delusions," 1842.

And "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," 1843. Holmes took his medical degree at Harvard in 1836. From 1838 to 1840 he served as professor of anatomy at Dartmouth College. In 1840 he married Amelia Lee Jackson and returned to general practice. He was appointed Parkman professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard Medical School in 1847 and served as dean from 1847 to 1853. Holmes remained at Harvard until 1882 and established himself as an excellent lecturer and teacher. He died on October 7, 1894.

Biographical Note

Robert Morton Hughes, an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, attended the University of Virginia Law School. He was the son of Robert William and Eliza M. (Johnston) Hughes. He practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia. Hughes was the president of the Virginia Bar Association; biographer of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; a member of the Virginia Board of Education; and served as a member and as rector of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary.