York County ME Archives Biographies.....Emerson, Joseph Pratt November 10, 1810 - July 17, 1884
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Author: J. W. Dearborn

JOSEPH PRATT EMERSON, was born in Lyman, Maine, November 10, 1810. His father 
was Captain Luther Emerson, who moved to Parsonsfield in 1814, and settled on 
the homestead farm of Thomas Parsons, whose daughter he married. Joseph P. 
followed agriculture as a business, yet music with him was not only a passion 
but a part of his being. And to it he devoted much time and service. He taught 
over two hundred classes and schools in vocal music, and devoted months of time 
and traveled thousands of miles to render service to others in times of need,
in this capacity, without charge or remuneration. In 1829, he went to New 
Brunswick and tarried there seven years, and during this time was married to 
Miss Sarah Dunfield. The union was blessed with eight children, three sons and 
five daughters — all yet living. In 1836, he returned to Parsonsfield to the old 
homestead, where he remained till his death, which was instantaneous — being 
thrown from a mowing machine on the seventeenth of July, 1884. He was one of the 
charter members of Charter Oak Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of 
Effingham, New Hampshire, and gave it its name. His remains were taken charge of 
by that Order, the largest and most impressive funeral service which ever 
occurred in town.

His genuine hospitality, unselfish generosity and his cheering wit and good 
humor were marked traits of his character, and his friendships were wide, 
numerous, firm and abiding. In politics he was a republican, in religion a 
Baptist. He was one of the few, whose removal from earth creates a vacuum that 
remains, and a sadness that is lasting.


Additional Comments:
from A History of the First Century of the Town of Parsonsfield, Maine, Portland, 
Maine, Brown Thurston and Co., 1888, p. 245-246.

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