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Raymond Emerson

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Birthplace: Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: October 27, 1977 (90)
Massachusetts, USA
Immediate Family:

Son of Edward Waldo Emerson and Annie Shepard Keyes Emerson
Husband of Amelia Emerson
Father of Ellen Cotton; Unknown Emerson; David Emerson; Annie Riggs; Edward Waldo Emerson and 2 others
Brother of William Emerson; Charles Lowell Emerson; John Emerson; Ellen Tucker Davenport; Florence Forbes and 2 others

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About Raymond Emerson

CONCORD, Mass., Oct. 30 (AP)—Raymond Emerson, a former civil engineer and a retired investment banker who was the last surviving grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th‐century essayist, poet and philosopher, died Thursday at his home. He was 90 years old.

He graduated from Harvard in 1910 and did surveying and engineering work in this country, Canada and Brazil, before joining J.M. Forbes & Co., Boston investment managers and trustees, as a partner. He retired in 1955.

He leaves a wife, two sons, two daughters, 22 grandchildren and 14 greatgrandchildren.

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Raymond Emerson's Timeline

1886
November 28, 1886
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1914
January 27, 1914
1915
February 4, 1915
1916
November 23, 1916
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1918
June 26, 1918
1920
July 4, 1920
1923
July 27, 1923
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1926
July 13, 1926
1977
October 27, 1977
Age 90
Massachusetts, USA