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Emerson met his first wife, Ellen Louisa Tucker, in Concord, New Hampshire, on Christmas Day, 1827, and married her when she was 18 two years later. [37] The couple moved to Boston, with Emerson's mother, Ruth, moving with them to help take care of Ellen, who was already ill with tuberculosis. [38]
[citation needed] The money came from a settlement with the family of his first wife, Ellen Tucker, who had died young. [8] He wrote that he hoped to "crowd so many books and papers, and, if possible, wise friends into it, that it shall have as much wit as it can carry." [9] It became a central meeting place for philosophers, idealists, and ...
Eldest daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, born February 24, 1839, was named for the first wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson at Lidian's suggestion. She remained unmarried and proved to be a great help to her father in his work. She wrote a biography of her mother and lived to the age of sixty-nine.
His first wife, Louisa Tucker, died in India on 27 February 1887 during a cholera epidemic, and on 10 April 1888 he married Emma Booth, the daughter of William and Catherine Booth at Clapton Congress Hall. As was the usual practice in the Booth family at that time, Tucker added his wife's maiden name to his own, becoming Booth-Tucker.
Charlotte Wallis Tucker was born on May 25, 1809, in Roxbury, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). She died September 20, 1884, in Rome, Wisconsin . Her mostly fictionalised story was described in the four-book series The Charlotte Years by Melissa Wiley .
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Ellen Holly. Ellen Holly, the first Black actress to have a lead role in a U.S. soap opera, has died. She was 92. Holly died on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at a Bronx hospital, per a statement shared by ...
Ellen Holly was the first Black actress to star on a daytime television show. She starred as Carla Gray on 'One Life to Live' from 1968 to 1985. Trailblazing actress Ellen Holly of White Plains ...