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  (b. 29 August 1809 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA   d. 7 October 1894 Boston, Massachusetts, USA )  

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Oliver Wendell HOLMES was born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Oliver Wendell HOLMES died 7 October 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA .

Occupation: American physician, poet, and polymath





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birth1809 Birth
29 August 1809
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
NewsThe War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.
NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
News1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
Oliver Wendell HOLMES - Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnams sons.
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Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Seaver Hall, Harvard College
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death1894 Death
7 October 1894
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

He died at the age of 85.
Oliver Wendell HOLMES - Former Home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1906
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Former Home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1906

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