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Fitch Edward Oliver was born on November 25, 1819, in Cambridge, Massachussets, the son of Daniel and Mary Robinson (Pulling) Oliver. He was descended from Thomas Oliver, a physician, who emigrated to America in 1632, and was the great-grandson of Andrew Oliver, 1731-1799. Daniel Oliver (1787 - 1842), his father, was professor of intellectual philosophy at Dartmouth College (1823 - 37) and also taught chemistry and materia medica in the medical school (1820 - 38).
Oliver entered Dartmouth College when fifteen years of age, taught in rural schools during the long winter vacations, and was graduated in 1839. After a few months devoted to the study of law, he entered the Harvard Medical School and received the degree of M. D. in 1843, part of his medical education having been obtained at Dartmouth College, the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati, where his father had gone as a teacher, and by private instruction under Oliver Wendell Holmes, a distant relative.
After receiving degree, Fitch Oliver spent a year in Europe, particularly in Paris and Italy, returning to Boston to practise in 1844. At first Oliver took an interest in general medicine. He became one of the district physicians of the Boston Dispensary, served on the staff of the Boston City Hospital, and was an instructor in materia medica in the Harvard Medical School (1860 - 70). From 1860 to 1864 he edited, with Calvin Ellis, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. He was a member of the important local medical societies and his chief medical publications were a translation, with W. W. Morland, of A. F. Chomel's Elements of General Pathology (1848), an important paper, "The Use and Abuse of Opium" (1872), a much discussed subject at the time, and "The Health of Boston, 1875" (1876).
Oliver's real interest, however, was in the history of Massachusetts, in which his direct as well as collateral family lines had borne an important and conspicuous part. His first historical publication was The Diaries of Benjamin Lynde and of Benjamin Lynde, Jr. (1880). A few years later he gave assistance to P. O. Hutchinson, who edited The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. (1884-86) and, in 1878, he issued a completed edition of William Hubbard's History of New England, which had been published, in part, by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. There followed, in 1890, The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem, whose daughter had married his grandfather. Besides these volumes Oliver wrote a number of papers which appeared in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He joined the Society in 1876 and was appointed cabinet keeper in 1880, a position which he held, with distinction, until his death. He left to the Society a large and valuable collection of Oliverana, comprising all the publications he could find of those bearing his name.
For many years Fitch Oliver was an active member of the Church of the Advent, Boston, and he wrote, for use in his church and elsewhere, A Selection of Ancient Psalm Melodies, Adapted to the Canticles of the Church in the United States of America, in which is found an excellent arrangement of "De Profundis. " A Sketch of the History of the Parish of the Advent in the City of Boston, 1844-94 (1894) was largely written by him. His writings and annotations are models of their kind, clear, concise, and in pure, faultless English.
Oliver died in 1892.
Fitch Oliver's most important works: The Diaries of Benjamin Lynde and of Benjamin Lynde, Jr. (1880); The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. (1884-86); The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem (1890); A Selection of Ancient Psalm Melodies, Adapted to the Canticles of the Church in the United States of America; A Sketch of the History of the Parish of the Advent in the City of Boston, 1844-94 (1894).
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Fitch Oliver was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Church of the Advent.
In social life Oliver is said to have been somewhat reticent but modest, courteous, and dignified.
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As a physician, Oliver is said to have "brought to his duties fresh and abundant learning, conscientiousness, unsparing devotion, and the most scrupulous care. " As a historian he had "the instincts and habits of a scholar. When he entered upon a theme of study he was not content till he had patiently surveyed the whole field, and gathered in all that was necessary to know. "
On July 17, 1866, Fitch Oliver married Susan Lawrence Mason, a descendant of a distinguished family of Boston.
He was professor of intellectual philosophy at Dartmouth College (1823 - 37) and also taught chemistry and materia medica in the medical school (1820 - 38).
