Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley : two memoirs / by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
Date:
1898
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Credit: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley : two memoirs / by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Editions, with much Acceptance among the People of God. It must he added that he had a competently good Stroke at Latin Poetry; and even in his Old Age, affected sometimes to improve it. Many of his Compos- ure are yet in our Hands. It is pleasant to believe that some of the qualities of this distinguished scholar and Christian were re- produced in the descendant whose life we are study- ing. At his death in 1659 he was succeeded, as was mentioned, by his son Edward, whose daughter be- came the wife of the Reverend Joseph Emerson, the minister of Mendon who, when that village was destroyed by the Indians, removed to Concord, where he died in the year 1680. This is the first connection of the name of Emerson with Concord, with which it has since been so long associated. Edward Emerson, son of the first and father of the second Reverend Joseph Emerson, though not a minis- ter, was the next thing to being one, for on his grave- stone he is thus recorded: Mr. Edward Emerson, sometime Deacon of the first church in Newbury. He was noted for the virtue of patience, and it is a family tradition that he never complained but once, when he said mildly to his daughter that her dumplings were somewhat harder than needful, — but not often This same Edward was the only break in the line of ministers who descended from Thomas of Ipswich. He is remembered in the family as having been a merchant in Charlestown. Their son, the second Reverend Joseph Emerson, minister of Maiden for nearly half a century, married Mary, the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Moody, — Father Moody,— of York, Maine. Three of his sons were ministers, and one of these, William, was
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