“To this, in one shape or another, we must all come — if we have a Father, He will care for us and do what is best for us.”
About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…