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{{Short description|American physician (1728–1829)}}
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|birth_name  = Edward Augustus Holyoke
|image       = Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829).jpg
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|birth_date  = 1 August 1728
|birth_place = [[Marblehead, Massachusetts]], [[British America]]
|death_date  = 31 March 1829<br />(aged {{Age in years and days|1728|8|1|1829|3|31}})
|death_place = [[Salem, Massachusetts]], United States of America
|spouse      = 
|occupation  = [[physician]] }}

'''Edward Augustus Holyoke''' (1 August 1728 – 31 March 1829) was an American educator and [[physician]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Biography==
Edward Augustus was born in [[Marblehead, Massachusetts|Marblehead]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], on 1 August 1728. His father was the [[Reverend]] [[Edward Holyoke]], a former president of [[Harvard University|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.<ref>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.</ref> He died in [[Salem, Massachusetts]] in 1829 at the age of 100, surpassing the average [[life expectancy]] at the time by fifty years.<ref name="100mem">Essex Southern District Medical Society. [https://books.google.com/books?id=OpQEAAAAYAAJ Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke] (1829)</ref>

Holyoke was a charter member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{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}}</ref> 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==
*[https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-55630910R-bk ''Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke, M.D.'', (1829). From the Digital Collections] of the [[National Library of Medicine]].

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