In and about historic Boston . OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES—BIRTHPLACE AND much beloved author was born in Cambridge. August 29. 1809, in the shadow of Harvard University. His first popular verses, Old Ironsides. were writtenwhile he was a law student at that college. He afterwards gave up law and applied himself to medicine, and was later a professor at the Harvard Medical School, aposition which he held for thirty-five years. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, published in 1867. immortalized the genial wit of Doctor Holmes. It was fol-lowed by nine volumes of prose and three of ver
In and about historic Boston . OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES—BIRTHPLACE AND much beloved author was born in Cambridge. August 29. 1809, in the shadow of Harvard University. His first popular verses, Old Ironsides. were writtenwhile he was a law student at that college. He afterwards gave up law and applied himself to medicine, and was later a professor at the Harvard Medical School, aposition which he held for thirty-five years. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, published in 1867. immortalized the genial wit of Doctor Holmes. It was fol-lowed by nine volumes of prose and three of verse. He died October 7. 1894, and is buried in Mount Auburn LONGFELLOW HOUSE, CAMBRIDGEThis mansion, built 1760. was the home of a sturdy royalist. Colonel John Vassall, who abandoned it at the outbreak of the Revolution. General Washingtonmade it his headquarters for a short time in 1775. It received the name of Cragie House from Andrew Cragie who maintained it magnificently at a later was afterward occupied for a while by Edward Everett, the orator. In 1837 it became the home of the poet Longfellow and remained so until his death in all the great poets literary work was completed in this house.
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