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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. [A] Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who coined the phrase "Brahmin" in a January 1860 article he authored for The Atlantic Monthly. The phrase "Brahmin Caste of New England" was first coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a physician and writer, in a January 1860 article in The Atlantic Monthly. [10]
Holmes also included a character nicknamed "Little Boston", the last surviving member of a well-established Massachusetts family that was known to be a satirical version of Holmes himself. [8] The final installment, The Poet at the Breakfast Table , focuses on a character referred to as The Master, who advocates modern scientific ideas. [ 9 ]
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), jurist Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant and Continental Congress delegate from Massachusetts , married Sarah Barnard (d. 1770), remarried to Hannah Tracy (d. 1797)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), poet, physician, and essayist, father of the judge; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, son of the essayist; Oliver Wendell Holmes (archivist) (1902–1981), American archivist and historian
A Milwaukee jury has found Randell Jefferson, a former teacher's aide at the Oliver Wendell Holmes School, guilty of seven felonies related to his contact with children.
Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian. He was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Biography