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| | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | He was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Abiel Holmes (1763-1837), a Calvinist clergyman, avid historian, author of Annals of America and unnotable poetry and his second wife, Sarah Wendell, from a prominent New York family. |
 | | Through her Dr. Holmes was descended from Massachusetts Governors Thomas Dudley and Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Dudley's daughter, Anne Bradstreet, the first published American female poet. |
 | | Holmes died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. |
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