| Born in Boston on Election Day, the 25th of May, 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the fourth child of Williamand Ruth Haskins Emerson. His mother was the daughter of a successful distiller; his father was a liberally inclined minister, pastor of Boston's Oldest church (the First). Ralph's paternal grand-father, also named William, built the Old Manse at Concord and was himself a minister and graduate ofHarvard College (1761); known for his ardent patriotism, he died, aged thirtythree, at Tic
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