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= Oliver Wendell Holmes = = ﻿ By: Spencer, Jordan, and Kaitlyn =

Fun Facts About Oliver Wendell Holmes:

 * Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on August 29, 1809 in Cambrige, Massachusetts and he died on October 7, 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 85. He was buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown, Massachusetts.
 * He was the son of Abiel Holmes, who was a Congregational minister and Sarah Wendell, a historian and Abiel's second wife.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes had three older sisters, and a younger brother.[[image:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr,_1841.jpg align="right" caption="A daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in 1841"]]
 * Holmes was a doctor, a speaker, and an author that graduated from Harvard in 1829. Then, he entered law school.
 * When he grew tired of law school in 1830, he went on to medicine.
 * Holmes was also known for his public speaking skills. He recited, and wrote poems at special occasions. He also presented lively lectures about literature.
 * He first began to really enjoy writing when he went to Harvard.
 * He was part of the Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society at Harvard, and had many friends.
 * During the year that Holmes graduated from Harvard, 1829, he wrote the popular poem, Old Ironsides.
 * In his early years, he wrote much comic verse and poetry. He gained much fame with the publication of “Old Ironsides,” which still reminds Americans of the great warship from the War of 1812.
 * Holmes published poems in Harvard's the Collegian and in the New England Galaxy a little later.
 * Some of his most famous poems are The Deacon's Masterpiece, The Last Leaf, The Chambered Nautilus, and My Aunt.
 * Holmes wrote three novels,
 * Elsie Venner (1861);
 * The Guardian Angel (1867); and
 * A Mortal Antipathy (1885).
 * They all are about his religious views, but are not fiction.
 * In Paris, he studied medicine, and then he went back to Harvard to receive his M.D. in 1836.
 * Holmes married Amelia Lee Jackson on June 15, 1840 at King's Chapel in Boston. They had three children: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Amelia Jackson Holmes, and Edward Jackson Holmes.
 * In 1842, he drew attention to the contagiousness of the puerperal fever, which is said to be one of his greatest contributions to the medical world.
 * He founded The Atlantic Montly, a magazine, in 1857 with the help of James Russell Lowell.
 * He was the anatomy professor at Dartmouth College for two years then he became the anatomy professor at Harvard.
 * Later on, he became Harvard's Dean of Medical School until 1882.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who was his son, was a Supreme Court justice for the U.S. from 1902-1932.



Written By Oliver Wendell Holmes about The Last Leaf: //My publishers tell me that it would add to the interest of the Poem if I would mention any circumstances connected with its composition, publication, and reception. This request must be the excuse of my communicativeness. Just when it was written I cannot exactly say, nor in what paper or periodical it was first published. It must have been written before April, 1833; probably in 1831 or 1832. It was republished in the first edition of my poems, in the year 1836.//

//The Poem was suggested by the sight of a figure well known to Bostonians of the years just mentioned, that of Major Thomas Melville, "the last of the cocked hats," as he was sometimes called. The Major had been a personable young man, very evidently, and retained evidence of it in// //"The monumental pomp of age,"--// //which had something imposing and something odd about it for youthful eyes like mine. He was often pointed at as one of the "Indians" of the famous "Boston Tea-Party" of 1774. His aspect among the crowds of a later generation reminded me of a withered leaf which has held to its stem through the storms of autumn and winter, and find// //s itself still clinging to its bough while the new growths of spring are bursting their buds and spreading their foliage all around it. I make this explanation for the benefit of those who have been puzzled by the lines.//

**OUR PHOTO STORY** media type="file" key="The Last Leaf[1].wmv" width="629" height="629" == = The Last Leaf- Oliver Wendell Holmes = I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane.

They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.

But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone!"

The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.

My grandmamma has said-- Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago-- That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow;

But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.

I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.


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