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Edward Jackson Holmes, Amelia Jackson Holmes, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (left to right)

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General note: Forms part of: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935. Photographs and Other Images, ca. 1856-1934.Provenance: The papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S., were presented to the President and Fellows of Harvard University in two separate contingents and at separate times. The first contingent was presented to Harvard University by gift of deed on May 20, 1948, by Methyl Palfrey, widow of John Gorham Palfrey. The second contingent was presented to Harvard University by gift of deed on May 28, 1968, by Mary Manning Howe, widow of Mark DeWolfe Howe. The Manuscript Division transferred visual materials and objects from both contingents to the Art Collection.Subject: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: born March 8, 1841 in Boston, Mass.; attended Harvard College, 1857-1861; Union Army soldier during the American Civil War, 1861-1864; graduated Harvard Law School, 1866; married Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, June 17, 1872; professor at Harvard Law School, 1882; Justice of Massachusetts State Supreme Court, 1882-1902; Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Court, 1899-1902; Associate Justice of US Supreme Court, 1902-1932; died March 6, 1935. ; Edward Jackson Holmes Sr.: born October 17, 1846, to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Jackson Holmes in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married Henrietta Wigglesworth in October 1871; father to Edward Jackson Holmes Jr., born January 3, 1873; died July 18, 1884. ; Amelia Holmes Sargent: born Amelia Jackson Holmes in 1843 to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Jackson Holmes; married Turner Sargent ca. 1869; died April 1889 in Boston,...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935Holmes, Edward Jackson, 1846-1884Sargent, Amelia Jackson Holmes, 1843-1889
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