Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in 1803 and lost his father, a minister, at the age of seven. After Harvard, he became in 1829 minister of the Second Church of Boston and married Ellen Tucker, whom he lost in 1831. He left his ministry in 1832, no longer able to administer the Lord's Supper, travelled in Europe, then settled in Concord, where a circle including Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller met at his home. He lived for nearly fifty years on his lectures, given by the hundreds across the country, and died in Concord in 1882.

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• EssayNatureRalph Waldo Emerson · 1836LiteraturePublic domain