Professor Joseph Emerson, May 28, 1821-August 4, 1900

Contains extracts from letters, last days, and unpublished writings of Professor Emerson. Emerson was a professor at Beloit College and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, where his father was a teacher at the Seminary acroos the street. Due to fragile health it took him five years to graduate. A short biographical essay details his early life in Andover.