Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Emerson, MD, Rev Charles Wesley November 30, 1838 - 
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Author: E O Jameson

CHARLES WESLEY EMERSON, son of Thomas and Mary F. (Hewett) Emerson, was born 
Nov. 30, 1838, in Pittsfield, Vt. His father was for many years a teacher, and 
a man of great culture and fine literary taste. After leaving the public 
schools of his native town he was under the instruction of his father in 
higher English, scientific, and classical studies. This training was most 
thorough, the teaching being not merely a demand on memory but on the thinking 
and reflecting faculties. Mr. Emerson's paternal grandfather was a man 
remarkable for his knowledge of history and famous for his familiarity with 
the sacred Scriptures. His maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister, and 
is now living, at the good age of ninety-seven years. Mr. Emerson's grand-
parents on his father's side lived to be ninety-three years old. He was 
remotely related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. His great ancestor, Thomas Emerson, 
immigrant, settled as early as 163S in Ipswich, Mass., and was the progenitor 
of a race of ministers and learned men. Mr. Emerson graduated and took the 
degree of M. D. from the University in Philadelphia, Penn. He also passed 
through two departments of the Boston University, law and oratory, and 
completed a course of theological study under the Rev. Dr. Tyler, and was 
afterward ordained to the Gospel ministry by the Association of Congregational 
Ministers in Windham County, Vt. His first pastorate of three years was in 
Halifax, Vt. He was then settled for four years in Brookfield, Vt., and 
afterward preached for three years in Northfield, Vt. Subsequently he wras 
installed pastor of the First Parish in Fitchburg, Mass., and for nearly five 
years was the popular preacher to a large and flourishing congregation. He 
then pursued the study of oratory under Professor Monroe, of the Boston 
University, preaching on the Sabbath in Chelsea, Mass. After about two years 
his health failed and he traveled in Europe. Upon his return he was elected 
one of the faculty of the Boston University School of Oratory. But after the 
death of Professor Monroe this department of the University was discontinued, 
and Dr. Emerson drew about him most of his associate professors in that 
department and opened a school of oratory of which he is the Principal, known 
as the Monroe Conservatory of Oratory, which for some years was in Pemberton 
Square, and recently removed to Wesleyan Hall, Bromfield Street, Boston. Soon 
after the incorporation of the easterly part of Medway as Millis, Dr. Emerson 
purchased the estate once owned by Capt. Joseph Lovell, of Revolutionary 
history, and is fitting up a fine residence which he will occupy as soon as 
completed. Dr. Emerson has already won the high respect of his new neighbors 
and townsmen by his urbanity of manner, his friendly interest in all, his 
scholarly habits, his eminent knowledge and commanding ability as a public 
speaker.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records 
OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES 
IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.

Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

BY
E. O. JAMESON,

THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC.

MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

 Copyright, 1886.

E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.

All Rights Reserved.

 J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.

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