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 HOLYOKE

HOMES

1713-16.

congress, 1778-80, 1782-83, 1784-85, and 1786- 87; a representative in the 3d U.S. congress, 1793-95; a niemlier of the state constitutional convention of 1789, and a judge of probate, 1796-1815. He was a member of the governor's council for twenty-seven years, and a coun- cillor and vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical society for many years. He was mar- ried to Mary, daughter of Philemon and Mary (Prince) Warner, of Gloucester, Mass. He died in Dan vers, Mass., Jan. 2, 1816.

HOLYOKE, Edward, educator, Avas born in Boston, Mass., June 25, 1689; son of Elizur and Mary (Elliot) Holyoke, grandson of the Eev. EUzur Holyoke, representative in the general court; and a descendant of Edward Holyoke, who came from Tamworth, Warwickshire, Eng- land, and was an original grantee of the town of Lynn, where he settled at Saga- more Hill in 1638. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1705; A.M., 1708; was libra- rian at Harvard, 1709-12; tutor, 1712-16; and fellow, He was ordained to the Congregational ministry and was settled as pastor of a new Congregational cliui-ch at Marblehead, Mass., April 25, 1716. He resigned in 1737 on being elected eleventh president of Harvard college. During his term the college was visited by Whitefield, the revivalist, who preached the conversion sermon in 1741, and President Hol- yoke commended him for the effort, but when IMiitefielcVs Journal appeared in 1742, in which he reflected on the morals of the students of the college and even of the faculty. Dr. Hol- yoke published: T7ie Testimony of the Presi- dent, Professors and Tutors, and Hebrew In- structor of Harvard against the Rev. George Whitefield and His Conduct. In this i^amphlet he characterized Whitefield as "an enthusiast, an uncharitable person and deluder of the people " and as " an itinerant and extempore pi-eacher." He also piiblished three occasional sermons, 1736, 1737, and 1741, and the first poem in Piefas et Gratulatio (1761). He was three times married: first to Elizabeth Browne, of Marblehead; secondly to Margaret, daughter of Col. John Ap- pleton, of Ipswich, and thirdly to the widow of Major Epes, of Ipswich Hamlet. He died in Cambridge, Mass., June 1, 1769.

HOLYOKE, Edward Augustus, physician, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1728; son of the Rev. Edward and ^Margaret (Appleton) Holyoke. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1746; A.M., 1749; studied medicine with Dr. Berry, of Ipswich, and began i^ractice in Salem in 1749. He was married in 1755 to Judith, daughter of

Col. B. Pickman, of Salem. She died in 1756, and in 1759 he married Mary, daughter of Na- thaniel Viall, of Boston, and had twelve children. He founded and was first president of the Massa- chvisetts Medical society, and bequeathed to the society his voluminous diaries and other books. He was also president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a founder of the Essex Medical society. He trained many young men for the medical profession and won distinction as a surgeon. He was deeply interested in the science of astronomy, in which he made some research. He received from Harvard the hon- orary degree of M.D. in 1783, and that of LL.D. in 1815. After his ninety-second birthday he performed a diflficult surgical operation success- fully, and after his one hundreth year he began a manuscript on " Changes in the Manners, Dress, Dwellings and Employments of the Inhabitants of Salem." His one hundredth birthday was celebrated by a public dinner given by fifty physicians of Boston and Salem, at which he smoked his pipe and gave an appropriate toast. He died in Salem. Mass., March 21, 1829.

HOriER, Winslow, artist, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 24, 1836. He studied art with a lith- ographer, 1854-56; drew on blocks for wood-en- gravers; removed to New York, and was employed by a publishing house there. He attended the night school of the National Academj^ of De- sign, 1860-61, and received a month's instruction in landscape painting. He exliibited for the first time, in 1863, two pictures on war subjects: " Home Sweet Home " and " The Lost Goo.se at Yuletown." He exhibited " Prisoners at the Front " in 1865, and at the Paris salon in 1867. He studied in Paris in 1867 without a master; exhibited " Snap the Whip," and " The Amer- ican Type " at the Centennial exhibition in 1876, and " Snap the Whip " and the " County School- room " at the Paris salon in 1877. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1864, and an academician in 1865. He stood pre- eminent as a landscape j^ainter, although figure pieces, particularly negro studies and marine sub- jects, also received his attention. Among the more noted of the latter are: Eating Watermelon; Cotton-Pickers; In the Fields; Dad's Coming; Eight Bells; Canoes in The Rapids; The Fishing Ground; St. John's Gate; Indian Girls; The Life Line: Undertow.

HOMES, Henry Augustus, author and libra- rian, was born in Boston. Mass., March 10, 1812. He was prepared for college at Phillips Andover academy; was graduated at Amherst, A.B. 1830, A.M. 1834; studied for one year at Andover Theo- logical seminary; spent two years at Y'ale in the study of theology and medicine, then lived for a year in Paris, where he engaged in the study of