Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-08

was at last shattered. The last hours of Dr. Holmes were passed quietly, with his family by his bedside.
 Dr. Holmes returned from Beverly farms about ID days ago, and the removal greatly fatigued him, and, it is thought, hastened his end. The family residence was darkcned and apparently deserted, and few knew that Dr. Holmes was in Boston. The news of his death, which occurred at 1915 o'clock Sunday after noon, was kept quiet until late hour last night.
 Heart Failure the Immediate Cause.
 Heart failure was the immediate cause of Dr. Holmes death, though the doctor has slowly failed for the last four or five years. An asthmatic difficulty also assist ed in the final breaking down of the aged "autocrat. '
 Ten days ago Dr. Holmes returned to his Beacon street residence from his sum- mer home at Beverly farms Before that time slight symptoms of improvement in his condition were noted, and the removal was thought desirable. It proved, how ever, very fatiguing, and the doctor did not regain his former condition.
 Last Friday q sudden attack of heart failure seized him, which, with long standing asthmatic trouble. prostrated him, but Sunday morning he had appar-
 
 gone, however, the doctor was seized with n severe sTasm. and before medical aid could Do called he had passed away. He was unconscious for short time previous to his death
 Around his ho!sid. worr gathered tho members uf his I"n ly--Judgo Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ir.. tho only surviving son: Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Edward T. Holmes ncpErw uf the pnet.
 Although :no poets death occurred shortly after mi'!day. It did not become known until n lat' hour last night Tho house was durkcnod and police guarded the entrances to prevent the bereaved family from brin; disturbed.
 Th~ Toet'- Life.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes was born at Cambridge, Mass. Aug %, lS0a Ho graduated at Harvard college In 1929 and began the study of law. which he soon abandoned for that of medicine. After taking his degree Of NJ. D. he spent some time in the hospitals in Paris and other European cities. He returned to Boston in 1886 and began practice. In 1888 he was elected professor of anatomy and phye- iology in Dartmouth college and in lS47 was appointed to n similar professorship in the medical school of Harvard univer- sity, from which he retired In lSS2.
 but It IS chiefly as writer that Dr. Holmes Is known. As early as 1881 his contributions appeared in various period. icals. and his reputation as poet was es. tablishcd by the delivery of n motrical es- say entitled Poetry" which was follow. ed by others in rapid succession.
 In ls17 he began in Tho Atlantic Month ly n series of articles under the title of Tho Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" which were followed in ls60 by Tho Professor at the Breakfast Table" in 1872 by The Poet at the Breakfast Ia blc' and in lSS5 by The New Portfolio {"
 His Various PoeticaI Works.
 In addition he has published Astraea |" 1850; Currents and COuntercurrents In Medical :Science," 1861; Elsie Venner, Romance of Destiny" 1861: ''Porder Lands In Some Provinces of Medical Science" 1882: Songs In Many Keys [" 1861; "Soundings F@Om the Atlantic !" ls6i; Humorous Poems" 1865; Tho Guardian Angel" 1888; Mechanism In Thought and Morals, 1870; ''Songs of Many Seasons" 1874; John L. Motley. n Memoir. " 1878; The Iron Cato and Other Poems," 1880, Medical Essays" 1883: Pages From an Old Volume of Life, 2" 1883; Ralph Waldo Emerson" 1884; A Mortal Antipathy' and Our Hundred Days In Europe, 1887; Before the Cur