Holmes (Oliver Wendell) is born in Cambridge.

The son of Rev. Abiel and Sarah (Wendell) Homes, Oliver Wendell Holmes graduates from Harvard College, studies law briefly, becomes a doctor in 1839, a professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth, and then at Harvard Medical School (1847-1882), but becomes best known as a writer of poetry, essays, novels, and as a conversationalist. He lives at 3 Bosworth Street (then 8 Montgomery Place) from 1841 to 1859. Barrett Wendell subsequently writes, “Early in life he acquired the reputation of being the best talker ever heard in Boston; and this he maintained unbroken until the very end.” Holmes quietly after falling asleep on Sunday afternoon, October 7, 1894. After a memorial service at King’s Chapel, is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.