Lidian Jackson Emerson
1802–1892 (age 90)
Biography
Lidian Jackson Emerson was born in 1802 in Concord, Massachusetts, a town renowned for its intellectual and literary significance. She lived a life connected to one of America's most important cultural centers during the nineteenth century.
Her ninety years witnessed the flourishing of American transcendentalism and literature, and she remains part of Concord's distinguished historical legacy.