Waldo Emerson (1836 - 1842)

Born Oct 1836 in Concord, Somerset, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 Jan 1842 at age 5 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Waldo Emerson was the first-born child of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lydia Jackson.

He died at the age of five years old. His father was devastated by his loss. His friend Judge Hoar described, “I think I was never more impressed with a human expression of agony than when Mr. Emerson led me into the room where little Waldo lay dead and said only, in reply to whatever I could say of sorrow or sympathy, ’Oh, that boy! that boy!’”

Source

• The living legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. An exhibition commissioned by the Emerson Bicentennial Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association.