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Rh him judge of the supreme court of Santo Domingo, and when this island was finally lost to France, he became president of the court of Martinique, which position he held till 1827. He then removed to Paris, and, on the accession of Louis Philippe, was appointed member of the state council. He pub- lished " De la marine franyaise " (Paris, 1800) ; " Des colonies francjaises, et en particulier de Saint Domingue" (1802); "La verite sur les affaires d'Haiti/' published at the expense of the former planters of the French part of the island, as Eman- gard had sustained their right to an indemnity (1833) ; and " Nouvel avis aux colons de Saint Do- mingue sur le payeraent de I'indemnite " (1836).

EMBRY, James Crawford. bishop, b. in Knox county, Ind.. 2 Mov., 1834; d. in Philadelphia, 11 July, 1897. He was brought up on a farm, was adn'iitted to the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1863, was elected by the gen- eral conference of his church in 1876 to be secre- tary of education, and chosen also financial secre- tary in 1878. He was a member of the Methodist ecumenical conference at London in 1881. and of the Baltimore centennial conference of 1884. In the latter year he was made general manager of the pul)lishing department of his church. He was the author of " Condition and Prospects of the Colored American " (Kansas City, Mo.).

EMBURY, Emma Catherine, author, b. in New York city in 1806; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 10 Feb., 1863. She was the daughter of Dr. James R. Manley of New York city, and in 1828 became the wife of Daniel Embury, afterward president of the Atlantic bank of Brooklyn. From girlhood to the time of her death she was a frequent contributor to various periodicals, in many of them over the pen-name &ldquo;Ianthe.&rdquo; Her printed volumes include &ldquo;Guide and other Poems&rdquo; (New York, 1828); &ldquo;Female Education&rdquo;; &ldquo;The Blind Girl and other Tales&rdquo;; &ldquo;Glimpses of Home Life&rdquo;; &ldquo;Token of Flowers&rdquo;; &ldquo;Pictures of Early Life&rdquo;; &ldquo;Nature's Gems, or American Wild Flowers&rdquo; (1845); &ldquo;Love's Token Flowers&rdquo; (1846); &ldquo;The Waldorf Family, a Grandfather's Legend&rdquo; (1848); &ldquo;Poems&rdquo; (1869).

EMBURY, Philip, preacher, b. in Ballygaran, Ireland, 21 Sept., 1729; d. in Camden, Washington co., N. Y., in August, 1775. His parents were members of the colony of Germans that emigrated from the Palatinate to Ireland early in the eighteenth century, and in which Wesley labored with great success. Embury was educated at a school near Ballygaran, and learned the carpenter's trade. He was converted on Christmas day, 1752, became a local preacher in 1758, and in 1760 came to New York and worked at his trade. In common with his fellow-emigrants, he began to lose interest in religious matters, and did not preach in New York till 1766, when, moved by the reproaches of Barbara Heck, sometimes called the &ldquo;foundress of American Methodism,&rdquo; he began to hold services first in his own house on Barrack street, now Park place, and then in a rigging loft on what is now William street. (See ../Heck, Barbara.) The congregation thus formed was probably the first Methodist congregation in the United States, though it is a disputed question whether precedence should not be given to Robert Strawbridge, who began laboring in Maryland about this time. The first Methodist church was built under Embury's charge in 1768, on the site of the present John street church, and he himself worked on the building as a carpenter, and afterward preached there gratuitously. He resigned in 1769 and went to Camden, N. Y., where he continued to work at his trade during the week, preaching every Sunday. He organized among

Irish emigrants at Ashgrove, near Camden, the first Methodist society within the bounds of what is now Troy conference. He died suddenly, in consequence of an accident in mowing, and was buried on a neighboring farm, but in 1832 his remains were removed to Ashgrove churchyard, and in 1866 to Woodland cemetery, Cambridge, N. Y., where in 1873 a monument to him was unveiled, with an address by Bishop Simpson.

EMERIAU, Maurice Julien, Comte, French naval officer, b. in Carhaix, Finisterre, 20 Oct., 1762 ; d. in Toulon, 2 Feb., 1845. On his mother's side he belonged to a Creole family of Santo Domingo, and was an extensive land-owner there and in the island of Martinique. At the age of sixteen he entered the royal navy as a volunteer, and took part in the war of American independence, distin- guishing himself under Comte d'Bstaing in the combats of the island of Grenada and of Savan- nah. He took part in twelve sieges, received three wounds, and in 1779 was rewarded with the rank of lieutenant. In 1792 he was given command of a corvette on the naval station of Santo Domingo, and while cruising in the waters of that island, as well as on the coast of the United States, he ren- dered important services during the revolt of the negroes. He was then promoted to captain, ap- pointed chief of squadron, and commanded the first division, which formed the vanguard of the Egyptian expedition. For his brilliant services in the battle of Aboukir he was appointed rear-ad- miral, and was for some time maritime prefect of Toulon. In 1803 he was sent to Santo Domingo to re-establish communication with the south of the island, and successfully accomplished his mis- sion, forcing Dessalines to raise the siege of Port au Prince. In 1803-'ll he had charge of the de- fence of the coast of the Mediterranean against the English, and rendered important services to his country. In 1811 he was appointed commander of a fleet of twenty-one vessels of the line and ten frig- ates, constructed and equipped under his personal inspection while he was prefect of Toulon. He had frequent engagements with the English fleets, and for three years never lost a ship. He was made vice-admiral in 1813, and in 1814 defended^Toulon against the attack of a formidable fleet. Emeriau was made a peer of France by Napoleon in 1815, and by Louis Philippe in 1831. He was engaged in writing his memoirs when he died.

EMERSON, Benjamin Dudley, educator, b. in Ilampstead, N. IL, in 1781 ; d. in Jamaica Plain, now a part of Boston, 2 Oct., 1872. He was gradu- ated at Dartmouth in 1805, was a teacher in New- buryport, Mass., in 1810-'17, and afterward principal of the Adams grammar-school, Boston, for many years. He was associated with his brother Fred- erick in the preparation of school-books, and liis spelling-books, readers, and arithmetics became widely popular. He also published an " Academ- ical Speaker" (Boston). According to the pro- visions of his will, the bulk of his property was given for religious and educational jjurposes. In it he provided for the establishment of the Ilamp- stead high-school, and left $100,000 to Dartmouth college. — His brother, Frederick, author, b. in Hampstead, N. H., 28 Nov., 1788 ; d. in Boston, Mass., in 1857, was for many years a well-known teacher in Boston, and was for some time superin- tendent of schools there. He published a series of arithmetics, which were largely used in schools, including the " North American Arithmetic," in three parts (Boston, 1834).

EMERSON, Benjamin Kendall, naturalist, b. in Nashua, N. H., 20 Dec, 1843. He was gradu-