Edward Augustus Holyoke

American physician

Edward Augustus Holyoke

Born|

Edward Augustus Holyoke

1 August 1728

Marblehead, Massachusetts, British America

Died| 31 March 1829
(aged 100 years, 242 days)

Salem, Massachusetts, United States of America

Occupation| physician

Edward Augustus Holyoke (August 1, 1728 – March 31, 1829) was an American educator and physician.[1]

## Biography[edit]

Edward Augustus was born in Marblehead, Province of Massachusetts Bay, on August 1, 1728. His father was the Reverend Edward Holyoke, a former president of Harvard. Edward Augustus himself graduated from Harvard in 1746. He opened a medical practice in 1748 and practiced for 73 more years until retiring in 1821. In 1768 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society as a member.[2] He died in Salem, Massachusetts in 1829 at the age of 100, surpassing the average life expectancy at the time by fifty years.[3]

Holyoke was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[4] and the president of the organization from 1814 to 1820. He was also a founder of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served as the president of the society 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.[by whom?]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "People: Edward Augustus Holyoke..." Department of History and Science. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
2. ^ Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 3:537–543.
3. ^ Essex Southern District Medical Society. Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke (1829)
4. ^ "Charter of Incorporation". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 3 January 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

## External links[edit]

* Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke, M.D., (1829). From the Digital Collections of the National Library of Medicine.

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