York County ME Archives Biographies.....Emerson, Luther November 11, 1782 - July 4, 1875
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Author: J. W. Dearborn

CAPTAIN LUTHER EMERSON, was born in Alfred, Maine, November 11, 1782, the son of 
Joseph and Lydia (Durrell) Emerson, and grandson of Rev. John Emerson of 
Topsfield, Massachusetts, whose father was Edward, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts colony, 
coming from Durham, England, and settling at Ipswich about 1635, and were of the 
staunch old Puritan stock, descending from Sir Ralph Emerson, of York, England, 
who was knighted by King Henry Eighth, in 1585. The heraldic arms have been 
inherited by the family of the late Ralph Waldo Emerson, a branch of the same 
family. In 1807, he married Miss Elizabeth Usher Parsons, daughter of Thomas
Parsons, of Parsonsfield.

He then settled on a farm in Lyman, adjoining Alfred, where he resided until 
after the death of his father-in-law, when he purchased the Parsons homestead 
and removed to Parsonsfield, where the remainder of his life was passed. Mrs. 
Emerson died in 1857, and in 1868 he married a second time. He died July 4, 
1875, at the age of ninety-two years and eight months. In politics a whig, and 
later, a republican, and in religious views and profession, a Congregationalist.
He reared a family of five sons and two daughters. He was ambitious, energetic, 
a man of sound judgment, passionately fond of poetry and a great lover of music, 
hospitable and kind, a good friend and a worthy citizen, neighbor, father and 
husband.

Additional Comments:
from A History of the First Century of the Town of Parsonsfield, Maine, Portland, 
Maine, Brown Thurston and Co., 1888, p. 245.

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