Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728 - 1829)

Born 1 Aug 1728 in Marblehead, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Died 31 Mar 1829 at age 100 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts,United States

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Biography

Edward Holyoke was a centenarian, living to age 100.

Born in Marblehead, Province of Massachusetts Bay, son of the Reverend Edward Holyoke, a former President of Harvard, Edward Augustus graduated from that college in 1746. He opened a medical practice in 1748 and practiced for 73 more years, until retiring in 1821. He died in 1829 at the age of 100, surpassing the average life expectancy of the time by fifty years (assuming one survived childhood, for there was an extremely high infant mortality rate during this time).

Holyoke was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was president from 1814 to 1820. He was a founder and president of the Massachusetts Medical Society as well, from 1782 to 1784 and from 1786 to 1788. The length of his service to the medical practice and his pioneering work in the advancement of smallpox vaccinations have been acknowledged. He died in Salem, Massachusetts at age 100.

Burial

Broad Street Cemetery, Holyoke Tomb No 15

Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Sources

• Dow, George Francis. The Holyoke Diaries, 1709-1856 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1911) Page 31 & Page 96: See footnote

• Doctor Holyoke's first wife was a sister of Love (Pickman) Frye.

• Wikipedia entry for Edward Augustus Holyoke, accessed February 10, 2018.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #27251422