Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist, essayist, poet and spiritual mentor to the Nation in the years following the Civil War. Wikipedia
Born: July 24, 1819, Dwight, Massachusetts
Died: October 12, 1881 (age 62 years), Park Avenue
Literary movement: Romanticism, Transcendentalism and Literary realism
Resting place: Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S