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Lidian Jackson Emerson (born Lydia Jackson; September 20, 1802 – November 13, 1892) was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
She was a great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a niece of William Cameron Forbes (Governor-General of the Philippines 1908 - 1913). [ 1 ] Forbes married architect Lyman Paine in the mid-1920s; [ 1 ] they moved together from Boston to New York, where Forbes' friend Mary Bancroft described them as hosting "wonderful parties in their ...
Forbes married Edith Emerson, the daughter of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. [3] They had six sons, Ralph Emerson Forbes, W. Cameron Forbes, John Murray Forbes (who died at age 17 of appendicitis), [4] Edward W. Forbes, Waldo Emerson Forbes and Alexander Forbes, and two daughters, Edith Forbes and Ellen Randolph Forbes.
Edward Waldo Forbes, of the Forbes family, was born on July 16, 1873, on Naushon Island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. [1] [2] [3] His father, William Hathaway Forbes, was a co-founder of the Bell Telephone Company with Alexander Graham Bell. [1] His mother, Edith Emerson Forbes, was the daughter of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1]
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, [3] the 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]
Stanley Armour Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas, the younger of two sons to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. (December 25, 1894 – October 4, 1970) and Ruth Lucille Armour (September 1, 1900 – November 25, 1926). [3] His father's ancestors settled in Kempton, Indiana, in the 1840s, before relocating to Kansas. [4]
Ralph Waldo Ellison, named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, [5] was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Lewis Alfred Ellison and Ida Millsap, on March 1, 1913.He was the second of three sons; firstborn Alfred died in infancy, and younger brother Herbert Maurice (or Millsap) was born in 1916. [1]