Emerson was superintendent of schools in Concord and on the board of health and the cemetery and library committees. He was a founding member of the Concord Antiquarian Society, now called the Concord Museum, and a member of the Social Circle.
Emerson married Annie Shepard Keyes of Concord in 1874. Four of their seven children lived to adulthood, and only one of their seven children survived them. Their children were:
Ellen Tucker Emerson (1880–1921), who married Charles Milton Davenport when she was 40 in 1920.[5]
Florence Emerson (b. 1882)
William Forbes Emerson (b. 1884)
Raymond Emerson (1886–1977), who lived in Concord, married Amelia Forbes April 19, 1913, and became a civil engineer and later an investment manager.[6]
^Carl L. Anderson (1999). "Emerson, Edward Waldo". American National Biography (online ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1600507. (subscription required)
^"2. A. Marshall (Boston). Annie Keyes Emerson and daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, 1880. From a carte de visite (source undiscovered)". Concord Library. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
^"Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes Papers and Additions". Mass History. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
"Edward Waldo Emerson and Emerson family papers, 1845–1971 (bulk 1876–1922)". concordlibrary.org. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Emerson, Edward Waldo" . Encyclopedia Americana.
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