Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-29
Ralph Waldo Emerson,

During the past weeks since it was known
that illness was affecting him, Ralph Waldo
Emersons condition has been a subject of
daily interest. From his first attack his
symptoms have not been alarming. unless
that his continually growing little weaker
might cause apprehension. Even on Tuesday
last he was reported Comfortably sick. 8"
perfectly conscious, and able and glad to
recognize his friends. as always, for Emerson
Is the man who said 1.-The ornaments of a
home are the friends who frequent it,
Emerson was born IN Boston, Nav 25, 1908.
and was therefore, Mt his death in his 10Th year.
He was son of Rev. William Emerson.
who was pastor of the first church in Boston.
Educated at the public schools and the Latin
school, he entered Harvard college in 1917.
and graduated therefrom in 1921 1t is not
related of him that he stood remarkably
high in his class, though he twice re
ceived prizes for dissertations, and once for
defamation. On ''elass day. the dav al
ways made so much of at Harvard, he was
the poet. The five years after his graduation
were spent in teaching school in Boston
One Of race of ministers, in which a
pulpit representative had not failed for eight
generations, Emerson was ordained rs col
league of Henry Ware, at the second Unita
rian church of Boston. Differences of opin-
ion between himself and members. on the
subject of the Lords Supper, caused his
requesting and obtaining a dismissal
from that church in 1882
After year in Europe he returned in the
winter of 1884, and then began his career
as lecturer, in which he has been SO famous
n nd an salt Al. l..
on water" at the Mechanics Institute. he
followed it up with biographical lectures upon
Angelo, Milton, Luther and others. and for
the next ten years continued steadily in this
line of lecturing. delivering courses on Eng
lish literature. philosophy of history, human
culture, human life. and many other subjects
In 1910 he became connected. together with
Alcott. Claiming, Parker and others, with a
magazine, 1.-The Dial" of which Miss Mar
Raret Fuller was edi,ress. During the las,
two Of its four years existence it was under
the editorship of Mr.. Emerson.
The two series of his Essays were pub
lished in lS4l and 1874: volume of his
poems being collected and published two
years later. Another trip to England to fulfil
q lecturipg engagement took place in lS47
A great work, though perhaps overdrawn in
some points. his Essays on Representative
Men," was published in 1850. His examiua-
ton of English life bore fruit in 1856 in the
publication Of English Traits" a work In
which the English character is strongly
drawn and emphasized.
Mr.. Emerson has been frequent contrib
utor to the Atlantic Monthly, and collec
tion of his writings in that magazine has beer
made. He has also delivered many lectures
on slavery. woman's rights. and other public
topics. He signed. with his wife, the first
call for National woman's Rights Conven.
ton, in 1850. He has been one Of the hes,
known lecturers in the country. He lec,uret
for forty consecutive seasons before the Salem
Lyceum.
He was a vice president of the Free Relig
ions Association; an Overseer of Harvard
College and received the degree of doctor OF
laws in 1866. He was a member of the Amer
lean Academy of Arts and Sciences, of thu
American Philosophical Society, and of the
Massachusetts, Historical Society.
In spite Of his writing that one Of The
things that
-''Thou shalt not long for. If thou love mint
serene"
"A woman to thy wife. though che were . crowned
queen"
Mr.. Emerson has been twice married,-oncs
in 1880 to Ellen Louisa Tucker of Boston
Who died the following year; and again in
1885 to Lillian jackson of Plymouth. He
has three children, two daughters and one
son. The con Edward Waldo graduated .,