Ralph waldo emerson
- Was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25,1803.
- Died in Massachusetts on April 27, 1882.
- Emerson is also well known as a friend of David Thoreau.
- He had memory problems when he was old.
- He met Abraham Lincoln and agreed with the Emancipation Proclamation.
- His older son, Waldo, died in January 1842 from scarlet fever.
- He was poor when he studied at Harvard.