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Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-94, American author and physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1829; M.D., 1836); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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