Preparation for Thoreau/Emerson Keynote

Find 10 facts about either Thoreau or Emerson. (The author depends on your side of the room). Post the facts on your blog with the author and website where you got the information. Read a post of another student in the class about the author you didn't do. Copy and paste 10 facts on your blog about the other author.

Thoreau:
1) He was born in 1817.
2) He "was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them".
3) He went to school at Harvard, which his brother John Thoreau helped pay for by teaching school.
4) He was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's book, Nature.
5) The death of his brother John in 1842 traumatized him.
6) In 1845, he built his cabin on land that was owned by Emerson, and worked on writing his first book.
7) After his book was published, only few people purchased it.
8) "He found greater joy in his daily life than most people ever would."
9) In 1862, fourty-four year old Thoreau died of tuberculosis.
10) His last words were said to be "Moose" and "Indian."
-Taken from: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/

Emerson:
1)He was born in 1803 and died in 1882.
2)He was the leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century.
3)He abandoned the catholic church after the death of his first wife, Ellen.
4)He was the Class Poet of his graduating class at Harvard University.
5)He wrote Nature, in which he expressed his belief that the imagination of man is shaped by nature.
6)The things he said had a strong effect on those of the Protestant and Catholic religions, and people thought him to be an atheist.
7)When his first son died in 1842, he wrote of his grief in the poem "Threnody".
8)He was fond of Walt Whitman's poetry.
9)He met with Abraham Lincoln to discuss the emancipation of slaves. 10)He delivered Henry David Thoreau's eulogy.
-Taken from Tesla Gibby's blog. :)