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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Emanuel, David, state senator, governor, in 1742. He settled in Burke coun-

was born

ty, Ga.; was president of the state senate; and in 1801 was acting governor of Georgia.

He

died in 1808 in Burke county, Ga. Embree, Charles Fleming, litterateur, author, was born Oct. 1, 1874, in Princeton,

He was the author of A Dream of a Throne; For the Love of Tonita; and A Heart of Flame. He died in 1905 in PrinceInd.

ton, Ind.

Embree, Elisha, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1801, in Lincoln county, Ky. He was elected to the state senate of Indiana; and in 1835-45 was circuit judge. In 1847-49 he was a representative from Indiana to the thirtieth congress. He died Feb. 28, 1863, in Princeton, N.J.

Embry, James Crawford, clergyman, bishwas born Nov. 2, 1834, in Knox He was bishop of the African church in South Carolina. He was the author of Condition and Prospects of the Colored American. Be op, author,

died July 11, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Embury, Mrs. Emma Catharine, author, was born in 1806 in New York City. She was the author of Guido and Other Poems; The Blind Girl and Other Tales; The Waldorf Family, a Fairy Tale; Female poet,

Education; Glimpses of Home Life; Pictures of Early Life; Poems; Token of Flowers Nature's Gems, or American Wild Flowers; and Love's Token Flowers, a collection of poems. She died Feb. 10, 1863, in Brooklyn.

Embury, Philip, clergyman, founder, was born Sept. 21, 1729, in Ireland. 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 Williams street. 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 died in August, 1775, in Camden, N.Y. Emerich, Martin, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 27, 1847, in Baltimore, Md. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Maryland state legislature. Since 1887 he has been interested in the manufacturing business in Chicago, 111.; and is prominent in

numerous

secret

and charitable

societies.

In 1892 he became a county commissioner; and in 1901 was south town assessor. In 1903-05 he was a representative from Illinois to the fifty-eighth congresses as a democrat. Emeron, Justin Edwin, physician, author, was born Aug 11, 1841, in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1880 he practiced his profession of

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medicine at Warren, Mass. Since 1885 he has been neurologist to the Harper hospital of Detroit, Mich. He is the author of Imperative Impulses in Mental Diseases; American Lancet; and other works.

Emerson, Alfred, archaeologist, educator, was born in 1859 in Pennsylvania.

author,

He was 1891-97.

professor at Cornell university in is the author of Dissertatio de

He

Hercule Homerico; Recent Progress in Classical Archaeology; and Sound Money. Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, geologist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1843, in Nashua, N. H. For many years he held the chair of geo^ logy and mineralogy in Amherst college. He is also United States geologist. He is the author of several works on geology. Emerson, Benjamin Dudley, educator, philanthropist, was born in 1781, in Hampstead, N.H. He was principal of Adams grammar school of Boston; and published spelling books, readers and arithmetics; and also an Academical Speaker. He established the Hampstead high school, and left one hundred

thousand dollars to Dartmouth college. He died Oct. 2, 1872, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Emerson, Brown, clergyman, was born Jan. 8, 1778, in Ashby, Mass. He was ordained in 1805 as Dr. Daniel Hopkins' colleague in the pastorate of the old South church of Salem; and was sole pastor in 1816-49. Hfc died July 25, 1872, in Salem, Mass. Emerson, Charles Franklin, educator, mathematician, dean, was born Sept. 28, 1843, in Chelmsford, Mass. He was fitted for college at Westford academy; and at Appleton

New

academy

of

Ipswich, N.H. four terms he

For taught

district

and

private schools in Massachusetts before entering college. In 1868 he received the degree of A.B. from Dart-

mouth college and was salutatorian at commencement and for three years he had charge of gymnasium work at Dartmouth: and in 1868-72 was



tutor in mathematics in that institution. In 1872-78 he was associate professor of natural philosophy and of mathematics; in 1878-79 was Appleton professor of natural philosophy; and in 1877-92 was instructor in astronomy at Dartmouth. Since 1893 he has been dean of the academy faculty in Dartmouth college of Hanover, Mass. In 1897-99 he gave much thought to the planning of the Wilder physical laboratory, visiting the laboratories in New England and the middle west; and in 1883-84 made a study of laboratories abroad. He has already completed forty years of continuous service for the college; and nine-tenths of all the living

graduates of Dartmouth have been