Oliver Wendel Holmes Sr. Grave
42.372475°N 71.141439°W

6/27/2012 11:59:17 AM

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Holmes was a contemporary and friend of writers such as Emerson, Longfellow, and Lowell. He was a physician and lecturer as well as a writer spending much of his career teaching at Dartmouth Medical School and Harvard. Some of his most famous written works were The Breakfast Table Series and Old Ironsides. He was also published in the Atlantic Monthly which he founded.
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Oliver Wendel Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is also recognized as an important medical reformer.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.