UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA MEMOIR. EDWARD AUGUSTUS HOLYOKE was born in the neighboring town of Marblehead, August 1st, 1728, O. S. His family was ancient and respectable. The first of his paternal ancestors who came to this country, emigrated from Tamworth, on the borders of Warwickshire and Staffordshire in England, in 1638; and resided first at Lynn, and afterwards at Springfield, in this State. His maternal grandfather was a descendant, in a direct line, from the first Smithfield Martyr, John Rogers. His father, EDWARD HOLYOKE, was born in Boston, and was educated at Harvard College. He was minister at Marblehead, when the subject of this memoir was born, where he remained until 1737, when he was elected President of the college in which he had been educated. He then removed to Cambridge and presided over that institution, with great dignity and success, until his death, a period of more than thirty years. EDWARD AUGUSTUS was the second of eight children, and the eldest son. The first nine years of his life were passed in the place of his nativity. He removed with his father to Cambridge, and under his direction was prepared for Harvard College, in which he was matriculated in 1742. He was graduated in 1746. Of this early period of his life we know but little, and this little is not important. He has long outlived his cotemporaries, and of himself he loved not to speak. We may infer, however, from the result of his maturer life, that he was one, "Whose early care it was "His riper years should not upbraid his green.” He resided during the whole of his collegiate course in the family of his father, and was accustomed to recur to this period with pe |