page_title: Elizur Holyoke
section_title: Trivia
hierarchical_section_title: Elizur Holyoke / Trivia
caption_attribution_description: English: The Capt. Elizur Holyoke pontoon boat of the Holyoke Water Power Company for the city's 100th anniversary celebration in 1973.
context_page_description: Elizur Holyoke of Springfield, Massachusetts was an English colonist, surveyor, scribe, soldier, the namesake of the mountain, Mount Holyoke, and indirectly, of the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
context_section_description: Contrary to some records, both the city of Holyoke and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) were named after the nearby mountain, Mount Holyoke, and not directly after Elizur Holyoke. The city's name was decided by the board of directors of the first Hadley Falls Company in a meeting in Boston on February 19, 1850.
  Elizur Holyoke's grandson Rev. Edward Holyoke was president of Harvard University from 1737 to 1769.
  Elizur is the uncle of Thomas Putnam and the great uncle of Ann Putnam, Jr. of the Salem witch trials
caption: The Captain Elizur Holyoke, a pontoon used for site-seeing on the Connecticut River during the City of Holyoke's Centennial
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