Edward Waldo Emerson (July 10, 1844 – January 27, 1930 [1]) was an American physician, writer and lecturer. [2]
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. [3] 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. [4] He was an instructor in art anatomy at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts from 1885 to 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:
Joseph Emerson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Emerson Sr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Emerson | Ruth Haskins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Lidian Jackson Emerson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward Waldo Emerson | John Malcolm Forbes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raymond Emerson | Amelia Forbes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He made many contributions to magazines.