The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-08
The Poet and Humorist Passed
Away at Boston.
The End Came Quietly but Sud
denly Sunday Afternoon.
HAD A LONG LIFE.
He Had Just Passed His Eighty
Fifth Birthday.
A Kindly and Versatile Genius
Has Been Removed.

BEVERLY. Mass, Oct. Solver
Wendell Holmes died at his residence
at Beverly farm yesterday afternoon
DR. Holmes had been IN feeble
health for long time, and although
an iron constitution had long baf1ed
disease, it was at last shattered The
last hours Of DR. Holmes were passed
quietly, with his fainilya at his bedside
DR.. Holmes returned to Boston from
Beverly farm about ten days ago and
the removal greatly fatigued him, and,
it is thought. fastened the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in
1909 in the old .'gambrel rooted"
house in Cam bridge, Mass. opposite
the Harvard university buildings His
father. Rev A Abie1 Holmes. D. D., was
an eminent preacher. and was long
church OF Cam bridge. DR. Holmes
graduated at Harvard IN 1929, and,
adopting the medical profession, com
pleted his studies in 1896. Up to iS47
he filed the chair of anatomy and
physiology at Dartmouth, and in the
latter year assumed a similar profess
sOrshIp Rt Harvard, since which time
he resided continually III Boston
1t would be difficult to say whe ther
DR. Holmes enjoyed greater dlstlnc-
tion a physic an or man Of letters
Both in the theory and practice OF
IuGAlClnG ne dCnAGVGQ LnG nO5J DTlL-
liant success He especially devoted
himself to the investigation of psy-
Geological problems. raised by the in
terde epend ence of mind and matter, a
romance Elsie Venner, dealing with
this subject The success of the At
lantic Monthly was largely due to the
AutOcrat of the Breakfast Table and
other prose pieces which he contrib
uted- His grace fuI and polished style
invested the dryest topic with a pecu-
liar charm. and made him one of the
best known and most popular of
American writers.
As early as 1s3; Dr. Holmes con-
tributions appeared in various period
icals and his reputation as poet was
established by the delivery Of a met
rical essay entitled "Poetr which
was followed by others in rapid sue
cessien- Ia 1887 he began in the At
lantic Monthly series Of articles
under the title of The Autocrat Of
the Breakfast Table" which were
followed in 1860 by The Professor at
the Breakfast Table, in 1872 BY the
Poet at the Breakfast Table" In
a iditiOn he has pu blished s'Astraea,''
1880: Currents and Counter Cur
reats in Medical Science" 1861; Elsie
Venner. a Romance o. Destiny
1851; Border Lands in Some Provinces
Of Medical Scie nee 1862: Songs on
Many Keys" 1854; ''Soundings From
the Atlantic. 1854; Numerous
Poems 1865; The Guardian Angel.
1865; Mechanism in Thought of
Morals" 1870; Songs of Many Sea-
sons 1874; John L. Motley
Memoir 1878; The Iron Gate and
Other Poems 1850; Medical Essays
1854; Pages From an Old Volume of
Life, " 1888; Ralph Waldo Emerson -
1894; "A Mortal Antipathy," Our
Hundred Days in Europe" 1887;
Before the Curfew," 1883, and
numerous poems recited at various
re ennions and dinners.
As a writer Of songs, lyrics and
poems for festive occasions, he has
long occupied the first place.
IN 1856 he visited England. where
he was received with great coraiality.
The later years Of his life have been
spent in quiet retirement at Beverly
Falls farm. broken occasionally by =
lecture to the Harvard students