Edward Waldo Emerson

Daguerreotype of Edward Waldo Emerson and mother Lidian Jackson Emerson

Edward Waldo Emerson (July 10, 1844 – January 27, 1930[1]) was a United States physician, writer and lecturer.[2]

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.[3] 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:

Family tree


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joseph Emerson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
William Emerson, Sr.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
William Emerson
 
 
Mary Moody Emerson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Lidian Jackson Emerson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Edward Waldo Emerson
 
John Malcolm Forbes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Raymond Emerson
 
Amelia Forbes
 

Works

He wrote:

He edited:

He made many contributions to magazines.

Notes

  1. "Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
  2. "Emerson, Edward Waldo". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 557.
  3. Carl L. Anderson (1999). "Emerson, Edward Waldo". American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press.
  4. "2. A. Marshall (Boston). Annie Keyes Emerson and daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson , 1880. From a carte de visite (source undiscovered).". Concord Library. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  5. "Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes Papers and Additions". Mass History. Retrieved 11 November 2014.

References

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