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Period: to
My Decade
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Waldo's first wife, Ellen, dies of tuberculosis
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The Black Hawk War begins
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Emerson preaches the sermon that ends his career
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Charles Carroll, the last living signer of the Decleration of Independence, dies
in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 95 -
Emerson sets sail for Malta
Travels to Syracuse, Palermo, Venice, France, England, and Scotland -
Leonid meteor shower so intense that many believed stars were falling from the sky
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President Andrew Jackson was censured by the U.S. Congress
A disagreement over the Bank of the United States was what started it. The censure was later expunged -
French sculptor Frederic-August Bartholdi was born
Creator of the Statue of Liberty -
Waldo receives partial inheritance of $11,600 from Ellen Emerson's estate
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Emerson returns to settle permanently in Concord
not sure on exact date -
Waldo proposes to Lydia Jackson
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First assassination attempt on an American Presidnt
A deranged man shot at Andrew Jackson in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol -
Waldo marries Lydia Jackson
Calls her Lidian -
Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri
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Large fire in New York City destroys 530 buildings
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Waldo gets his short story "Nature" published
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Waldo Emerson Jr. is born
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The Panic of 1837, began in New York City
A major financial crisis of the 19th century -
John Wilkes Booth was born in Bel Air, Maryland
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Ellen Tucker Emerson was born
Most likely named after his first wife who died of tuberculosis -
John D. Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York
