Ancestry of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Abiel Holmes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Wendell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Aug 1809 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1894 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • American “Fireside” Poet

    Oliver Wendell Holmes is often listed among the Fireside Poets. The group consisted of the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets. It is often said to include John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

• Marriages for Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • Spouse:
  • Amelia Lee Jackson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jun 1840
  • Marriage Location:
  • King's Chapel, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630-1895, King's Chapel, p. 214, Baptism record for son Oliver Wendell Holmes.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/17/2016).
  • ³ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Marriage record for Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1922, Vol. 76, p. 206.
  • ⁵ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 7, Wakefield, Massachusetts: A.W. Brownell, Printer (1892), 780.
  • ⁶ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 8, Wakefield, Massachusetts: A. W. Brownell, Printer (1893), 860-863.
  • ⁷ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 9, Wakefield, Massachusetts: A. W. Brownell, Printer (1894), 978.
  • ⁸ Gray, George Arthur, The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, 1594-1908, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1908), 352-354.
  • ⁹ Kennedy, William Sloane, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist, Boston: S. E. Cassino and Company (1883).
  • ¹⁰ Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot and James Jackson Putnam, The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Unknown: Privately printed (1907), 29, 33-34.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.", (accessed 12/17/2016).