Edward Augustus Holyoke
{{short description|American physician}}
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|birth_date = 1 August 1728
|birth_place = Marblehead, Massachusetts, British America
|death_date = 31 March 1829
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|death_place = Salem, Massachusetts, United States of America
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|occupation = physician }}
Edward Augustus Holyoke (August 1, 1728 – March 31, 1829) was an American educator and physician.{{cite web|title = People: Edward Augustus Holyoke...|work = Department of History and Science|publisher = Harvard University|url = http://dssmhi1.fas.harvard.edu/emuseumdev/code/emuseum.asp?action=advsearch&newsearch=1&profile=people&rawsearch=constituentid/,/is/,/6757/,/false/,/true&style=single&searchdesc=Edward%20Augustus%20Holyoke|accessdate = 2008-05-11|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402184605/http://dssmhi1.fas.harvard.edu/emuseumdev/code/emuseum.asp?action=advsearch&newsearch=1&profile=people&rawsearch=constituentid%2F%2C%2Fis%2F%2C%2F6757%2F%2C%2Ffalse%2F%2C%2Ftrue&style=single&searchdesc=Edward%20Augustus%20Holyoke|archivedate = 2015-04-02}}
Biography
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.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. He died in Salem, Massachusetts in 1829 at the age of 100, surpassing the average life expectancy at the time by fifty years.Essex Southern District Medical Society. [https://books.google.com/books?id=OpQEAAAAYAAJ Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke] (1829)
Holyoke was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences{{cite web|title=Charter of Incorporation|url=http://www.amacad.org/about/charter.aspx#chartermbrs|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=1 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103142200/https://www.amacad.org/about/charter.aspx#chartermbrs|archive-date=3 January 2011|url-status=dead}} 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|date=August 2021}}
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External links
- [http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/55630910R Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke, M.D., (1829). From the Digital Collections] of the National Library of Medicine.
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Category:American men centenarians
Category:18th-century American physicians
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society
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