Name Edward Emerson Role Writer | Parents Ralph Waldo Emerson Children Raymond Emerson | |
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Died January 27, 1930, Concord, Massachusetts, United States Grandparents William Emerson, Ruth Haskins Books Henry Thoreau - As Reme, The early years of the Saturday, Emerson in Concord, A Correspondence Between, Life And Letters Of Charles Similar People | ||
Edward Waldo Emerson (July 10, 1844 – January 27, 1930) was a United States physician, writer and lecturer.
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Biography
Emerson was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was a son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian Jackson Emerson, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1866. He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1874, and practiced medicine in Concord until 1882, when he received an inheritance and retired from his practice. He then became an instructor in art anatomy at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts 1885–1906. 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:
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He made many contributions to magazines.