Ancestry of
Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

William Emerson Jr.

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• • Father of Ralph Waldo Emerson — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • William Emerson 
  • Mother:
  • Phebe Bliss   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 May 1769 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 May 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Haskins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Oct 1796 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  William Emerson

• Sources for William Emerson Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 324.
  • ² Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Being an Account of his Career, his Ancestry ..., New Haven, Connecticut: unknown (1933), 371-372.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 173.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 167.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 41.
  • ⁶ Upham, F. K., Upham Genealogy: The Descendants of John Upham, of Massachusets, Who Came from England in 1635 . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1892), 90.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Ralph Waldo Emerson", (accessed 01/09/2014).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "William Emerson (minister)", (accessed 01/09/2014).