Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-11
The Death OF Mr.. Emerson.
BOSTON. April q.

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BOSTON, April q.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson died at Concord at
| ten minutes before nine this evening, passing
away yery quietly, in the presence of his son.
| DE-. e. n. Emerson, and his two daughters,
| Miss Ella Emerson and Mrs. Forbes, his sons
| wife, and DR.. Putnam, Of Boston. He had
been growing steadily weaker since Tuesday
night, and arrived to-day at the point where
delirium took possession OF the brain. He
| labored this forenoon under the impression
| that he was away from home, and, while no
recognized the faces about him, he quietly
asked to be taken home. A gentleman who
passed portion of the day ut the house, and
| who saw the dying m m twice. says that in the
forenoon he was recognized and had BRIEF
conversation with him, but that in the after
| noon no seemed to be wandering and not quite
SO certain Of the identity Of those about him.
In the latter part of the day he suffered moro
than at any time since his illness began, and as
the sunset hour arrived lapsed into uncon-
ciousness, from which he did not awake.
| The cause of Mr.. Emersons death was acute
pneumonia. No stranger could have visited
Concord during the past week and met the
people there without being impressed with the
| esteem in which Mr. Emerson was held by his
ueighbors Men, women, and even little chill
dren, spoke tenderly Of him and expressed
earnest solicitude rs to his condition. nf
In 1776 Rev. William Emerson. father, OF
Ralph Waldo, figured prominently in the Revo-.
luton; was Chaplain Of the Continental Com
gress, and was present at the famous light at
Concord. r.T
Ralph was born in Boston. May g, 1903. At
eight years of age he entered the public gram
mar school and soon after the Latin school
He was noted as tone who loved to trif1e in
| rhyme little now and then" He entered
Harvard in his fourteenth year, but was even
then good classical scholar. His favorite
study was Greek, and he was an apt translator
and excelled in composition and defamation
In his sophomore year he assisted his brother
William in teaching school which was held
in his mothers house. In March, 1923, he was
ordained minister Of the Second Church in
Boston. Bronson Alcott, who heard him preach
that year, was struck with the youth Of the
preacher, the beauty of his clio cution. and the
direct and sincere manner in which head
dressed his hearers" In 1899 he resigned his.
place and gradually withd rev from the min
tstry. a we Efssf a 9Kfssss5s 4gsgat.)
In 1888 Mr. Emerson made voyage to Eu+
rope for the benefit of his health. In England
no formed the acquaintance Of such men as
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Walter Saw
age Lander and other famous Hteratis Re-
turning to Boston in the winter, he com
menced series of lectures, and in 1884
preached for time for the Unitarian Church
in New Bedford. In 1885 he delivered series.
of biographical lectures in Boston. In 1875, at
the layingrof the cornerstone Of a monument
commemorating the Concord fight, an ode
written by him was sung 1t contains the inn
mortal lines: ~ -
Here, once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world
In 1896 his book, entitled MATURE was
published, which met with SO slow a sale that
after twelve v sold
In 1888 Mr.. Emerson collected and published,
in three volumes, "Carlyle's Essays having
previously edited the American edition Of
= SartOr Resartus." In that year he, with
Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Parker,
Stetson, Clarke and others, formed the Trans
cendental Club devoted to the discussion Of
idealistic religion. He resigned position as
minister of East Lexington in 1888, on account
of his increasing 1iberality Of opinion. In,
ls39-40 he lectured in BOSTON. In ls40 a quar-
terly magazize, called The Did, of which Mr..
Emerson was editor, being associated, therein
with Margaret Fuller. was commenced and was
published for four years, and for which he
wrote much both of prose and poetry. In the
Brook Farm scheme of 1Sfl he took much In
terest, but his keen sense of the ridiculous
prevented his becoming a resident of 1.-THE
aesthetic village" as he styled it. sasDR1
In 1S41 he published q second series of essays
and volume of poems. In the fail of that
year he made second visit to England There
he was engaged to deliver course Of lectures
for the Mechanics Institute, which had some
time previously been organized by the famous
Lord Brougham. -v~T These lectures were re
| markably successful. He published another
volume Of essays in 1917, and also published in
book form some ofshi contributions to the
Did. Essays on Representative Men" APP
peared in 1856, memoirs Of Margaret Fuller
Ossoh" in 1852, English Traits" in 1883, the
conduct of Life ;. in 1850, ssAdays Day and
Other Poems in 1857. Z" Society aud Solitude
in 1870 Saz-tF qtss - $50, 49,.
In 1869 he was in sympathy with the Free
Soil party, and stumped for John Gorham Pal
frey, who was a candidate for Gubernatorial
honors that ticket, In 1855 he lectured on
antislavery in Boston and New York; He was
the friend during life of John Brown, of Har-
per's Ferry, and his apoloyist to, the end. In
1868 he composed his Boston hymn to celebrate
emancipation, and read it at the great meeting
in Boston June 1 of that year. He deliyereda
graphic and beautiful address at the meeting
in Concord which was held April 1s,y 1865, to
give expression to the public grief Tor the
death of Abraham Lincoln. 4gsss
I For the past fifteen or twenty years he has
continued to write and lecture, sometimes to
preach. Those who once criticised him found
new faith in him as poet thinker and critic.
What once seemed faults were forgotten, in
an auIn1TIng .recoRniIioH Oh MS genus. from
far and near he has been honored. Tyndall
said OF him: :. In him we have d poet ana o
profoundly religious man. who is really and
entirely undaunted by the discoveries of
science, past, present and frospective.. -
Mr.. Emerson was twice, snarried-dH 1920 to
Ellen Louisa Tucker, who died of ,cousump-
ton in 1Ss2 and in 1885 to Lydia jackson. Of
Plymouth, who has been the beloved compan-
ion to the last. he was always.t1tsrested in
fhn I,i1hIic welfare and fOnI an iva tv~
the literary organizations Of; Concord 1I3yEhis
neighbors, those who knew him longest and
most intimately, he was regarded with rever-
ence and devotion. - ss} st4sk . f
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