Ralph Waldo Emerson

: None | Death of Sibling 1814 (Sister Mary died) | Social : None | Begin a program of study 1817 (Entered Harvard on scholorship, age 14) | Social : None | End a program of study 1821 (Graduated Harvard) | Health : None | Medical procedure 1825 (First of series of eye operations) | Work : None | New Career 1826 (Unitarian minister for seven years) | : None | Death of Mate 1831 (Wife died of TB) | Work : None | Retired 1832 (Resigned from the church) | Social : None | Begin Travel 25 December 1832 (Sailed for Europe) | Work : None | New Career 1833 (Began his lecturing career, 39 years) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1836 (First book, "Nature") | Work : None | Retired 1872 (Retired from lecturing) | Work : None | Prize 1900 (Hall of Fame for Great Americans) | Traits : Mind | Exceptional mind (Harvard at 14, outstanding thinker) | Traits : Personality | Unique | Family : Childhood | Disadvantaged (Very poor) | Family : Childhood | Family traumatic event (Dad died, sister died one year apart) | Family : Childhood | Sibling circumstances (Brother handicapped, institutionalized) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (Two) | Family : Relationship | Widowed (First wife died of TB) | Family : Parenting | Kids more than 3 (Two boys and two girls) | Family : Parenting | Kids -Traumatic event (Son died of scarlet fever) | Personal : Religion/Spirituality | Rejection/ Leave church (Left the church after seven years ministry) | Vocation : Education | Public speaker (Lecturer) | Vocation : Religion | Ecclesiastics/ western (Unitarian minister) | Vocation : Writers | Religion/ Philosophy (Religion, philosophy, ethics, nature) | Vocation : Writers | Poet | Vocation : Writers | Textbook/ Non-fiction | Notable : None | For Verbal skills | Notable : Awards | Hall of Fame (For Great Americans) | Notable : Famous | Historic figure (Famed literary figure) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession | Notable : Book Collection | Occult/ Misc. Collection