Show oliver wendell dead boston mass oct 7 oliver wendell Il olmes alio well known poet and author died at ilia lioma beacon street at today heart failure was the immediate causo of ilia death though the doctor lia been slowly failing for the past four or five beare an asthmatic aun in the final breaking dofan of the autocrat ten anya ago dr holmead returned to his beacon street residence from hie bummer home at beverly farm before that time alight elmp toms of improvement in his condition were noted and abo removal was thought advisable it proved however very fatiguing and the doctor did not regain his former condition last friday a sudden attack of heart failure him which with the ions standing asthmatic trouble prostrated him but this morning he had apparently recovered after his physician had gone however the doctor was seized with a severe spasm and before medical aid could be summoned he had passed away lie was unconscious for a choit timo previous to his death around his bedside were gathered the members of his family judge oliver wendell jr the only surviving son mrs oliver wendell ll olmes jr and mrs edward J ll olmes nephew of the poet although tho death occurred shortly after midday it did not become known until a into hour tonight the house was darkened and police guarded the entrance to prevent the household from being disturbed oliver wendell holmead was horn at cambridge mass august he graduated at harvard college in 1829 and began the study of law which he soon abandoned for that of medicine after taking his decree of M D he spent some time in the hospitals in paris and other european countries he returned to boston in 1835 and began practicing in 1833 he was elected professor of anatomy and physiology in dartmouth college and in 1847 was appointed to a similar professorship in the medical school of harvard university from which be retired in 1882 but it is chiefly as a writer that dr is known As early as 1831 his contribution a appeared in various periodicals odi cals and his reputation as a poet was established by the delivery of a metrical essay entitled poetry which was followed by others in rapid succession in 1857 he began in the atlantic monthly a series of under the title of the autocrat of the breakfast table which were followed in 1860 by the professor at the breakfast table As a writer of songs lyrics and poems for festive occasions ho has long occupied the first place in he visited england where he was received with great cordiality editions of his collective poems have appeared from timo to time the first in 1836 he biad contributed largely to current ra edicAl literature as well as to literary journals and reviews and for a long time held a warm place in the hearts of the people as a lecturer A series of genial papers from his pen entitled over the teacups Tea cups appeared in tho atlantic monthly during 1890 abo latter years of his life have been spent in quiet retirement at beverly falls farm broken occasionally bya lecture to the harvard students SPECIA fc LIFE among american poets and philosophers oliver wendoll hohmes is peculiarly a product ot american soil denvir and culture he was descended from john holmead who nettled in woodstock conn in 1686 his father abiel holmes was educated for the ministry and himself became a noted author on the early annals of america oliver was born in cambridge mass august 29 1809 he made hi farst attempt at versification while in the preparatory academy ol 01 phillips andover a translation from tho aeneid he was graduated at harvard in 1829 and among his classmates were william channing james freeman dark and benjamin curtis his first introduction to the public was bis lyrical protest against breaking up of tho old constitution aye tear her tattered ensign down a strain that the middle aged will remember as one of the patriotic inspirations of their school years at this era he wrote and published several other poems which gained him publicity for the time but which aro only remembered by the curious in the interval be studied medicine and received his degree in 1836 in the same year he published his first volume of poem of which the treadmill song and the last leal wore the most noted the last leaf especially being one of those destined to live while the language en dures in 1839 he was chosen professor of anotoly and physiology at dartmouth and in 1810 he married the daughter oi charles jackson and soon afterward entered active practice at boston hawthorne who lived but a few miles from him at this time was a boon companion who named 1 the me vivacious of poets in 1847 he was appointed professor of zootomy and physiology in the medical ech ool of harvard and during the interval of his incumbency product d several medical dissertations and essays which gained him three of the royleston prizes he also produced several medical treatises some of which are yet current he became a contributor to the atlantic monthly when eliat magazine was established in 1857 and was considered as its most brilliant writer the autocrat of ahe breakfast table series cainus him the soubriquet by which ho is detill often named it is generally conceded to bo hia moat brilliant production he produced two novels elsie vennar and the guardian angel but they indicated that dramatic power was pot the bent of his mind he wae a sharp but not bitter satirist tor his bubbling good nature usually covered the sting with the humor with chic u he was specially pitied tho wonderful one hoss shay Is bia most noted if not his most popular poem but lacking the sympathetic ym pathetic pathos of the last leaf tho iron gate was written as a response to tho honor tendered him by the publishers of tho atlantic monthly and with others mark him as the most successful of tho poets of occasions when the war broke out be entered the national service as lieutenant in the twentieth massachusetts infantry and was wounded at bulls bluff anniet and at the second battle of fredericks burs when he was mustered out with alie rank of captain ia declining promotion to the lieutenant colonelcy he studied law and was admitted to the bar in afterward practicing in boston and attaining atti ining alie professorship in the law school at harvard whilo in this position he was appointed a justice of tho supreme court ot ills elate and in tho intervals of work edited kents commentaries and produced tho common law occasionally he would furnish ad dresses and his versatility as well as his productiveness are a literary marvel continued nearly to the present ue was att years and 1 month old up to bis death yesterday and ot a truth has lived to be the last leat upon the tree |