Edward Waldo Emerson (July 10, 1844 – January 27, 1930) was an American physician, writer and lecturer.
Biography
Emerson was born in
Boston
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, Massachusetts, the son of
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionism, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalism, Transcendentalist movement of th ...
and
Lidian Jackson Emerson, and educated at
Harvard
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, where he graduated in 1866. He graduated from the
Harvard Medical School
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in 1874, and practiced medicine in Concord until 1882, when he received an
inheritance
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and retired from his practice.
He was an instructor in art anatomy at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
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from 1885 to 1906. He was also an accomplished equestrian.
Emerson was superintendent of schools in Concord and on the board of health and the cemetery and library committees. He was a founding member of the Concord Antiquarian Society, now called the
Concord Museum, and a member of the Social Circle.
Emerson married Annie Shepard Keyes of Concord in 1874. Four of their seven children lived to adulthood, and only one of their seven children survived them. Their children were:
* Ellen Tucker Emerson (1880–1921), who married Charles Milton Davenport when she was 40 in 1920.
* Florence Emerson (b. 1882)
* William Forbes Emerson (b. 1884)
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Raymond Emerson (1886–1977), who lived in Concord, married Amelia Forbes April 19, 1913, and became a civil engineer and later an investment manager.
Family tree
Works
He wrote:
* ''Emerson in Concord'' (1888)
* ''The Life of
E. R. Hoar'', with
Moorfield Storey (1911)
* (1917)
*
Early years of the Saturday Club, 1855–1870'. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
* ''Later years of the
Saturday Club, 1870–1920''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.
He edited:
* ''Correspondence of John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson'' (1897)
* ''Centenary Edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson'', annotated (1903)
* ''Life and Letters of General Charles Russell Lowell'' (1907)
* ''Emerson's Journals'', with Waldo Emerson Forbes (1909)
He made many contributions to magazines.
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1844 births
1930 deaths
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harvard Medical School alumni
Physicians from Massachusetts
American male writers
Tufts University faculty
People from Concord, Massachusetts
American people of English descent
Harvard College alumni