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Holyoke, Edward

clergyman, college president, poet, was born June 25, HOLYOKE, 1689, in Boston, Mass. In 1737 he became president of the Hanover university. He was a successful clergyman; distinguished as a mathematician and classical scholar, and the author of a number of meritorious poems. He died June 1, 1769.

HOLYOKE, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 1, 1728, in Boston, Mass. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Medical society, and its first president. On his hundredth birthday, fifty of his medical brethren of Boston and Salem gave him a public dinner. He died March 31, 1829, in Salem, Mass.

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