Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Despite his many accomplishments, Oliver Wendell Homes, Sr. is best remembered today as the father of the great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., he of the impressive mustachio and beneficiary of a bestselling fictionalized biography and an even more fanciful MGM movie. The father, who evidently did not engage a good press agent, would probably have been both proud and amused. The famous son, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The senior Holmes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 29, 1809. Like his nearly exactly contemporary, Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was the son of noted liberal minister and a descendentof poet Anne Bradstreet. Unlike...