One source of the hymn's power may be Emerson's personal ties to the subject: his grandfather William Emerson, Sr., witnessed the battle at the North Bridge while living at the Old Manse.
William Shakespeare | William Laud | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | Ralph Waldo Emerson | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | William Wilberforce | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray | Fort William | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | William Hanna | William Hague | William III |
The organization’s first board of directors was chaired by William Emerson, dean of the School of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.