Emily Greene Wetherbee

Emily Greene Wetherbee (January 6, 1839 - August 28, 1897) was an American poet, author, and educator. Today, she is best remembered by the elementary/middle school named after her, The Emily G. Wetherbee School in Lawrence, MA.

Biography Wetherbee was born in Milford, N.H. in 1839. She was the youngest of 8 children born to parents Isaac and Sophia (née Greene). She spent her early years in Charlestown, MA in the neighborhood of Bunker Hill. At age twelve she moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she graduated from Lawrence High School in 1856. Additional positions included president of the Lawrence Women's Club, vice president of Lawrence High School Alumni Association, staff member of the Lawrence American, and a member of the New England Woman's Press Association.

Death She died at the Lawrence General Hospital from peritonitis on August 28, 1897. Upon her death, her friends complied many of her poems and Writings in a memorial book. She was buried in the Bellevue Cemetery in the family plot of the Clarke family. The Emily G. Wetherbee School on Newtown Street in Lawrence, MA was named in her honor.