1762–1820

Introduction

Born: Oc­to­ber 15, 1762, Box­ford, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 7, 1820, Con­cord, New Hampshire.

Buried: Village Ce­me­te­ry, Box­ford, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Biography

Holyoke came from a fa­mi­ly dis­tin­guished by ser­vice. His ma­ter­nal grand­fa­ther was Ol­iv­er Pea­bo­dy, min­is­ter to the Na­tick In­di­ans. His pa­ter­nal un­cle was Ed­ward Ho­ly­oke, pre­si­dent of Har­vard. His fa­ther served at the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Box­ford for al­most 50 years.

Holyoke gra­du­at­ed from Har­vard, then taught sing­ing through­out New Eng­land. He par­ti­ci­pat­ed in con­certs of the Es­sex Mu­sic­al As­so­cia­tion, and wrote a num­ber of re­li­gious and se­cular tunes.

From around 1800 he was liv­ing in Sa­lem, Mas­sa­chu­setts, where he led an In­stru­ment­al Club in 1805, and gave cho­ral con­certs 1808–09.

Works

For the fun­er­al of Am­eri­can pre­si­dent George Wash­ing­ton, Ho­ly­oke wrote tunes for two hymns by Is­aac Watts.

His oth­er works in­clude:

Sources

Music

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Ho­ly­oke (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),