Ralph W.

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I am Ralph Waldo Emerson, the originator of Transcendentalism. My life began as a ministers son in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1803. My father felt that I was a "rather dull scholar", but he left two weeks before I turned eight years old. Little did he know that I would become a well respected author. The year after my father passed on, I was sent to the Boston Latin School to further my education. When I hit the age of fourteen I was enrolled as a freshman at Harvard and became my class' president. I graduated in four years earning money by tutoring and teaching at my Uncle Ripley's school during the winters.
After I graduated I had established my own school in Chelmsford, and aided my brother in a school for young ladies that was in our mother's home. My brother then went to Göttingen to study divinity leaving me to become the headmaster of the young ladies school. I worked there for a few years, but I decided to go to the Harvard Divinity School becoming a Unitarian Minister in 1829.
During this time, I married my first wife Ellen who died roughly a year and a half later from tuberculosis which led to my departure from the church and set sail for Europe. There I found my beginnings of Transcendentalism from writers like Carlyle, Kant and Coleridge. Two years after my departure, I arrived back in Boston where I began teaching on my new found ideas. In 1835, I married my second wife Lydia. The next year I released "Nature" and began the Transcendentalist Club. My frist son, Waldo, was born in 1837 who died at the age of five. Between 1839 and 1844 the rest of my children were born, Ellen, Edith and Edward.
After my children's birth I travelled across this wonderous country to California. I also travelled to England, France and Egypt. My day of passing was April 22 1882.