People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

An Eminent American Passes Away—His Death Was Sudden. Boston, Oct. 9.—Oliver Wendell Holmes, the venerable poet and prose writer, almost the last of the circle of great men of letters of New England of the generation past, died at his home at 296 Beacoy street, Boston, at 1:45 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Boston, Oct 10.—The residence of the late Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is closed to all visitors. The poet was sitting in his study in his easy chair chatting with his son, Judge Holmes, when death came upon him Sunday without a moment’s notice. He died

at 1:30 p. m. No one but Judge Holmes, his wife and the servants were in the house. Dr. Holmes had passed a perfect summer, as far as health was concerned, and only returned a short time ago from his summer home in Beverly to his Beacon street residence. He had been suffering for a week from a bad cold, but his death was entirely unexpected even by the nearest members of his family. Messages of sympathy from all parts of the country have been received, and many callers have left cards at the house.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes.