William Emerson Sr.
Reverend William Emerson Sr. (31 May 1743, Malden, Massachusetts, USA – 30 October 1776, Rutland, Vermont, USA) was a minister. He was the father of William Emerson Jr. and Mary Moody Emerson, and grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Emerson Sr. served as chaplain of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and chaplain of the Continental Army. He died in 1776.
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| William Emerson | Mary Moody Emerson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Lidian Jackson Emerson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edward Waldo Emerson | John Malcolm Forbes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raymond Emerson | Amelia Forbes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
gollark: A convincing explanation I read of the everyone-has-to-go-to-college thing is that college degrees work as a signal to employers that you have some basic competence at listening independently, doing things for delayed gain later, sort of thing, more than providing any massively work-relevant skills, and it apparently got easier/more popular to get a degree over time, so the *lack* of one works as a signal that you *lack* those basic skills.
gollark: No idea.
gollark: Throwing money at a somewhat broken system can just perpetuate the somewhat broken system and cost a lot.
gollark: Oh, 30.
gollark: Somewhat slowly, but that graph spans... 35 years.
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