He was a descendant of a race of Concord clergymen, including Peter Bulkeley, the founder of the town.

He was born in Boston, but spent much of his youth in Concord in the household of Dr.Ripley, who was the second husband of the grandmother of the Emersons.

He studied law partly at Cambridge Law School, partly in Daniel Webster's office in Boston, and afterward with my father in Concord.

When my father took his seat in Congress, in 1835, Emerson succeeded to his office, and if he had lived would have succeeded to his practice.

Waldo Emerson had left it on record that he was led to choose Concord as a dwelling-place to be near his brother.