See also:  [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (b.1803.05.25, Boston, MA; d.1882.04.27, Concord)
His father Willaim Emerson was a reverend and a "friend of the arts",
and a Unitarian clergyman.
Transcendentalism
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