The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-10-08
like A TIRED CHILD
He LIVED AND DIED IN LOVE
Peaceful End Of One Of the Grand.
osst Men That Ever Adorned the
History oe Anarioan science
and 2 litepature.


and 2 Liespaturs.
BosroH, Oct. 7.-Olivsr Wendell
Holmes, famous - Q post and author,
disd at his residence on Beacon street at
12:i6 o'clock to-day from Q complication
Of diseases. d.. Holmes has bsen In feeble
hsalth for long time, and. although an
isoo eonstitution has long bailed dIssass.
u was st last shattered.
The last hours Of Dr.. Holmes we're
passed quietly With his family By his bed.
eide. DE-. Holmes returned from Beverly
farm about 10 days ago and the removal
greatly fAtieued him and, Il 10 thought,
FASTENED the end. The family residence
IVES darksned and apparently deserted to-
day and few knew Dr.. Holmes was In
Boston. TIE news Of his death was kept
quiet until . late hour tonight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was bern In Cam
bridge. Mass. August 20. iae. He was shsthird
Of ive children. Among his schoolmates we're
Alfred Lee. afterwards bishop of Delaware.
Margaret Fuller and Richard Heary lana, Jr.
He was prepared for college as Philips Andover
academy. where he made his irst attsmps q
of tho lEneid. In heroic couplets. He was
graduated q Harvard N isas. among his elass-
mates being william n Caannins, james Free
man Clarke and benjamin. r Curtis. He was
Q con ntribusor 70 one OF the college periodicals,
dslivseed The peen - oonmencement. and was
ono OF the u members chosen into
the b. X. seeiety. The next year,
when s was proposed 10 break up the old
frisass Constieutioa. Holmes published In the
Boston Advsvtissr his lyrical protest, beginning.
"Ay. tear her tattsred ensign down!" which
WAS widely copied In newspapers and circuiated
In hand bills, saving the ship from destruction
He studied law for year at the law school IN
Cambridge. and at thas time produced some Of
he bess known humorous pieces, including
sEyeuing by Tailor" and "rhe HEIGHT OF
the Ridiculous" In isss with Kpss sargent
and Park Benjamin, he contributed % . gin
book, sutitied "The Harbingsr." tho
profits Of ,which were givea 70 the
asylum for the blind. But his
hereditary instincts appear 10 have beea for the
psolsssion Of medicine. aad hs studied under
Dr. James Jackson and then spent three years
1854. and In the same year published his hrss
volume Of poems (bostoa). which contained ~
pieces. isoiudins. bssidss those already named.
"Puetry, Q Netricai kssay." read before the D.
X, society; "Ths LAST Leai," "My Aunt. .Ths
Treadmil Song" and "Ths September Gale"
In isso he was chosen professor Of anatomy
and physioiogy at Dartmouth collage. In lsA0
ho married Amelia Lee. daughter Of. Judge
Charles Jackson Of the supreme court OF
Massachuse to. and soon afterward he resigned
his professorshlp at Dartmouth In order to de-
vote himself to practice In Boston. In 1870 he
established summer home at Plttsaeld, MAss
Hawthorne as that time was living at Lenox.
few miles away, and In his aHau Of Faasty,"
after Describing IN ideal group Of posts, hs
says; "ln the most vivactous of these ! recog.
nlxs Holmes" In ioi7 he succeeded Dr.. John
c. Warren - Professor Of anatomy and physi-
oloGy IN ~ medical school Of Harvard. About
the came time he became lyceum lecturer. Dr.
Holmes haAgained three Of the Boyleston prizes
for medical dissertations and his
three essays were published to7ethsr In isss.
Hls oeher scientific works include an edition OF
"Marshall Hallb Theory and Praetice Of Medi-
tures on Homeopathy and Its Kindred D.
ltsioas." isl2; "Rspost on Medical Literaturs." |"
IN the "Transactions" Of the National Medical
association. isAs; "Border Lnes In Some Prov
inSss Of Medical science. 1852. several q thsse
have peen relssued In one volume with the title.
sMedical Essays." iSes. llis successive vol.
iumss Of poetry have borne tho tities "Yrania,
isas; "Astraes;" the balance OF n
lusions. 1850. "Songs In Many Keys"
''Sonu Of Many Seasons." 1873 and 'Ths
Iron Gate" 1879. There arc several collected
editions and some Of tho lieces have been is-
sued singiy with sumptuous Illustrations.
when the Atlantic Monthly was established
In the autumn Of 1857, DIR. Holmes bscame one
OF the drss contributors and By many readers
was esteemed the most brilliant Of ail that nosa-
bio galaxy. His hrst contributions were In the
form Of series Of conversational papers on
titled IN "Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table." T"
h which were included some Of tho finest Of
his poems. The "Autocrat" was fol-
lowed BY . similar series, "The Professor
q the Breakfast Table" and. AFTER an interval.
By tho Poet at the Breakfast Table," each Of
which on It's completion In tho magazine was
papers, be tells us In his preface. were the full
Allmens OF . plan conceived Is years before.
when he published In the Nev England Aagd.
sine two articles with the title Of "fhs Autocrat
Of tho Breakfast Table"
Dr. holmes also wrote two novels, which
were nrst published serially. "Elsie venner, q
Romance Of Destiny" TWO volumes, 1851, and
.'The Guardian Angel. two volumes. 1858,
'sS ;ss sSsn Tor Dramatic poMer s osSsr prosc
works are "Soundings From the Atlantic, |"
sMechanism In Thought and Morals. "a Nor.
tai Ansipathy," and "One Hundred Days In Eti.
rope"
Of literature hc has npdsrtaksp. but bis most
brilliant and popular work Is The .'Autocrat OF
the Breakfast Table" While his longest lived
II probably his poems. IN these the expressI0n
10 SO admirably clear. that the roader does not
always inmedately. appreciate the depth
like "Ths Moral Bully are as
sharp rs tho most merclless critic
could desire. while % any Of his purely humor.
GUS ones, like 1.-THE Wonderful 0ne Hoss Shay"
are already classic. As poet Of occasions Ii Is
doubtful II he has ever had an equal. Ills life
has been written by Waller s. Kennedy and
also by Emma Z. Brown. In yo ume to which
Is appended complete bibl!ography Of his pub
licatiops.
O'BRiEN ON THE BUM.