Ancestral Trails 2016 » Raymond EMERSON (1886-1977)

Personal data Raymond EMERSON 


Household of Raymond EMERSON

He is married to Amelia FORBES.

They got married on April 12, 1913, he was 26 years old.


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Notes about Raymond EMERSON

Raymond Emerson (November 28, 1886 - 1977) was a civil engineer, an investment banker, and faculty at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He is known for his large donations of personal Ralph Waldo Emerson letters and other documents for educational purposes. He was part of the Emerson family, Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandson. In addition to his marriage to Amelia Forbes, he was also connected to the Forbes family through other marriages in his parent's and his own generations.

Raymond Emerson was born to Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson and Annie Shepard Keyes on November 28, 1886 in Concord, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of seven children born to the couple, and one of only four that survived to adulthood. Raymond's father, Edward, was the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian Jackson Emerson.

Business
Raymond worked as a civil engineer after graduating from Harvard in 1910. His surveying and engineering work took him across the United States and also to Canada and Brazil. In 1927, he joined J.M. Forbes & Co. in Boston as an investment banker and partner in the company. He continued as partner until 1958. His son David was also a partner in the same firm from 1956-1986, which gave the two a two-year overlap of being partners at the same time.

Raymond worked closely and was good friends with William Henry Claflin, Jr., both of whom were faculty at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. In 1938 Raymond replaced Ingersoll Bowditch as a member of the museum faculty, and was part of the museum oversight body until he retired in 1956. In 1924, Raymond and Claflin funded an expedition into Southern Utah for survey and excavation work performed by John Otis Brew and others. This expedition became known as the Claflin-Emerson Expedition, which lasted four years. While at the museum, Raymond was "particularly involved" with Alfred V. Kidder under the latter's mentorship at the museum.

After his death, Ralph Waldo Emerson's papers and works got passed down through the next generations, and Raymond allowed publications to use some of those works. He was considered the closest kin of Ralph Waldo Emerson after Ralph Waldo Emerson's children died.

Raymond also donated generously to the Peabody Museum, including funding some of its archaeological expeditions.

Family
On April 12, 1913, Raymond married the heiress Amelia Forbes, daughter of the yachtsman and capitalist John Malcolm Forbes and Sarah Coffin Jones. Forbes was the granddaughter of railroad magnate John Murray Forbes and grew up in the mansion he built, called Fredonia, which had passed to Amelia's father. The Emerson and Forbes families were intermarried many times over.

Together, Emerson and his wife had six children: Ellen, born in 1914; David, born in 1916; Annie, born in 1918; Edward Waldo, born in 1920; William, born in 1923; and Hope, born in 1926.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Raymond EMERSON

Ralph Waldo EMERSON
1803-1882
Lydia JACKSON
1802-1892

Raymond EMERSON
1886-1977

1913

Amelia FORBES
1888-1979

Edward Waldo EMERSON
1920-2006
William Forbes EMERSON
1923-1944

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Birthday November 28, 1886

  • The temperature on November 28, 1886 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
    • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
    • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
    • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
    • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
    • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Day of marriage April 12, 1913

  • The temperature on April 12, 1913 was between -1.3 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
    • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
    • July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
    • December 1 » Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
    • December 14 » Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
    • December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.

Day of death October 27, 1977

  • The temperature on October 27, 1977 was between 8.8 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1977: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
    • March 16 » Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
    • April 22 » Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
    • May 25 » The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
    • July 5 » Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
    • August 12 » The Sri Lanka Riots:, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
    • September 7 » The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.


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