Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Wikipedia
Born: May 25, 1803, Boston, MA
Died: April 27, 1882 (age 78 years), Concord, MA
Influenced by: Henry David Thoreau, Plato, William Wordsworth, and more
Children: Edward Waldo Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Waldo Emerson
Spouse: Lidian Jackson Emerson (m. 1835–1882) and Ellen Louisa Tucker (m. 1829–1831)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in 1803. Educated at Harvard and the Cambridge Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister in 1826 at the Second ...
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