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Emerson, Ralph was born on May 3, 1831 in Andover, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Ralph (Doctor of Divinity, professor, in Andover Theological Seminary) and Eliza (Rockwell) E.
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Ralph Emerson
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Educated Phillips Academy, Andover. Studied law under private instruction, but, by advice of Abraham Lincoln (who was his intimate friend) dropped the law for business career.
Career
Honorary Wait and Elizabeth (Norton) Talcott, of Rockford, Illinois, September 7, 1858. Inventor and one of the pioneers in west in wholesale manufacture of agricultural implements: also inventor of certain kinds of seamless hosiery, now in world wide use. Former proprietor of two Republican newspapers.
Originator of City Electric Lighting works.
One of organizers and officer of two national banks. President two insurance companies.
Now prosecuting, director or trustee of numerous manufacturing companies, notably the Emerson-Brantingham Company, and Burson Knitting Company, of Rockford, Illinois Published a Genealogy of the Emerson Family. Founder Emerson Normal and Industrial Institute, Mobile, Alabama Home: Rockford, Illinois.
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Married Adaline Elizabeth, daughter
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American