Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
American
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Saturday Club (Boston) | |||
The Atlantic Monthly | 1857 |
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Saturday Club (Boston) | |||
The Atlantic Monthly | 1857 |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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1810/00/00 | Cambridge boys, including Oliver W Holmes, knock on Andrew Craigie's shuttered windows and then run, as if from a haunted house. | Life | Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site | Cambridge, MA | |||
1830/09/16 | "Old Ironsides", a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, is published in the Boston Daily Advertiser, bringing national attention to the scrapping USS Constitution. | Author | Old Ironsides | USS CONSTITUTION | Boston | ||
1833/05/00 | Oliver Wendell Holmes visits Salisbury. | Visitor | Salisbury, Eng | Wiltshire | |||
1833/05/00 | Oliver Wendell Holmes visits Stonehenge. | Visitor | Stonehenge | Wiltshire | |||
1836/00/00 | "The Last Leaf", a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, is published. | Author | The Last Leaf (Holmes poem) | ||||
1846/11/00 | "Urania: a Rhymed Lesson. Pronounced Before the Mercantile Library Association, October 14, 1846" by Oliver Wendell Holmes is published by William D Ticknor and Company. | Author | Old Corner Bookstore | Boston | |||
1849/00/00 | William D Ticknor and Company, Boston, publish the second edition of "Poems" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. | Author | Old Corner Bookstore | Boston | |||
1850/00/00 | Frequent visitor | Visitor | Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site | Cambridge, MA | |||
1850/00/00 | Dean Oliver Wendell Holmes and his colleagues seriously considered admitting a forty-five-year-old woman to the Harvard Medical School. | Work | Harvard Medical School Quadrangle | Boston | History of Harvard Medical School | ||
1850/08/05 | On the way up, Duyckinck's group is caught in a sudden storm and takes refuge under overhanging rocks where Oliver Holmes uncorks a bottle of champagne and shares it with the group. | Guest | Monument Mountain | Great Barrington, MA | Champagne | Evert Duyckinck's Monument Picnic | |
1861/00/00 | "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr is published. | Author | A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters (Short Story) | ||||
1864/05/23 | Oliver Wendell Holmes serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Mourner | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Concord, MA | Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
1867/11/21 | Henry W Longfellow, Ralph W Emerson, Oliver W Holmes and Louis Agassiz dine with Charles Dickens. | Dinner Guest | Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America | ||||
1880/04/04 | Friends of James Freeman Clarke, including William H Channing, Rev Henry W Foote, Julia Ward Howe and Dr O W Holmes, honor Clarke on his birthday with poem, song and story. | Life | Church of the Disciples | Boston | |||
1893/05/01 | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Festival Hall | Poet | Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance | Chicago | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
3 Creative Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr »
Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
Old Ironsides | Author | Poem | 1830/09/16 |
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The Last Leaf (Holmes poem) | Author | Poem | 1836/00/00 |
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A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1861/00/00 |
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