Trivia
- Contrary to some records, both the city of Holyoke and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) were named after the nearby mountain, Mount Holyoke, and not directly after Elizur Holyoke.
- Elizur Holyoke's grandson Rev. Edward Holyoke was president of Harvard University from 1737 to 1769.
- Elizur is the uncle of Thomas Putnam and the great uncle of Ann Putnam, Jr. of the Salem witch trials
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