Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an american born on August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his birthplace being a house just north of the Harvard yard. Who was a physician, poet, educator, author, and polymath based in Boston. As a member of the Fireside Poets he was claimed as one of the best writers of his days by his peers. Though he wrote many poems his most famous poems are the “breakfast-table” series. His father was a minister of the First Congressional Church and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Even when he was younger, he was considered a bright and talented boy. He visited his father’s library often and explored the writings of the likes of Oliver Goldsmith and John Dryden. By the time he was thirteen he had written his first poem. He was taught by William Bigelow and Dame Prentiss and was later enrolled in the Port School in Cambridge-port. He loved reading and was often scolded for reading in class. As his father wanted him to follow in his steps he was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts by the age of 15. The academy was renowned for its traditional Calvinist teachings but Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. did not want to be a theologian and for this reason did not savour the year he spent at the academy. …show more content…
He served as Secretary and Poet at the Hasty Pudding. After graduating, he studied at the Harvard Law College for a short while but later decided to pursue medicine and went to Boston Medical College. In 1833 he went to Paris and studied in renowned medical schools for a while. He was among the first Americans who received training of the new clinical procedure at the École de Médecine. He went back to Harvard and completed MD from Harvard Medical School in 1836. He was among twenty students who received a scholastic honour when he was in the second