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 HKRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. ernment during the civil war. He afterward became superintendent of the American saw company, which was organized to manufacture his circular saws with movable teeth. He also invented a combined anvil, shears and punching machine. He died in 1900 in Columbus, Ohio. Emerson, Jesse Milton, litterateur, author, was born in 1818 in Massachusetts. He was a publisher of New York City. He was the author of New York to the Orient; Stimulants; and European Glimpses and Glances.

He

died in 1898 in

New York

City.

Emerson, John Smith, missionary, author, was born Dec. 28, 1800, in Chester, N.H.

He

published five volumes of elementary works, three of which were in the Hawaiian language. He also published an English-

Hawaiian Dictionary. He died March 28, 1867, in the Sandwich Islands. Emerson, Joseph, clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1777 in HoUis, N.H. He established an academy at Byfield, Mass. He was the author of Lectures on the Millennium; Lectures on Pollock's Course of Time and an edition of Watts on the Mind.

He

died

May

14,

1833,

in

Weathersfield,

Conn.

Emerson, Joseph, clergyman, educator, auwas born May 28, 1821, in Norfolk, Conn. In 1848-1890 was professor of English in the Beloit college. Wis. He was the author of a volume of lectures and sermons. He died Aug. 4, 1900, in Beloit, Wis. Emerson, Justin Edwards, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Hawaii. thor,

In 1870-77 he was assistant physician of the Michigan insane asylum at Kalamazoo. Since 1880 he has precticed medicine in Detroit, Mich. In 1893 he was president of the

American academy of medicine. Emerson, Louis Woodard, manufacturer, banker, congressman, was bom July 25, 1857, at Warrensburg, N.Y. Since 1878 he has been engaged in the banking and manufacturing business in Warrensburg, N.Y. He was state senator for two terms, commencing in 1891. In 1899-1903 and in 1907-11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, sixtieth

and

study at Cornell university, receiving the degree of Ph.D. In 1882-84 he was superintendent of schools at Grinnell, Iowa in 1884-85 was superintendent of schools of Muscatine, Iowa; and in 1885-88 he was principal of the academy of Iowa college. In 1892-96 he was assistant professor of rhetoric and English philology at Cornell university; and since 1896 has been professor of the same subjects at the Western reserve university of Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the History of the English Language; Brief History of the English Language; Middle English Reader; and other works. Emerson, Philip, educator, author, was born- May 7, 1865, in Reading Mass. Since 1885 he has been engaged in educational work; and since 1898 has been instructor in geography and the methods of teaching it conventions institutes, and summer at schools of New England and at Cornell university. He is the author of The New England States; and Stereoscopic Field Guide

A A

and Teachers Manual. Emerson, Philip H., lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1834, in Danby, Vt. In 1865-73 he was city attorney of Battle Creek, Mich; served in the state senate; and was United States associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Utah.

Emerson, Ralph, clergyman, educator, auwas born Aug. 18, 1787, in HoUis, N.H. He was professor in Andover theological seminary in 1829-53. He was the author of Life of Joseph Emerson; and translation of Wisgon's Augustinianism and Pelagianism. thor,

He

died

May

20, 1863, in

tions.

Emerson, Oliver Farrar, educator, philoloauthor, was born May 24, 1860, in Traer, Iowa. In 1882 he graduated from gist,

Iowa college, receiving the degree of A.B.; and three years later the degree of A.M.; and in 1891 he finished a. course of graduate 25

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when the substance

of

his poetry is consider-

ed apart from its form. He was ordained in 1839 as a unitarian minister in Boston, but retired

from

the profession in 1833, and the next year settled in Concord, Mass.,

first

them The Romberg Collection; The Golden Wreath; The Golden Harp; The Sabbath Harmony; The Harp of Judah; Merry Chimes; Jubilate; and sundry other collec-

Rockford,

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born May 25, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was the most distinguished of American essayists, and by some critics ranked as the foremost American poet

sixty-

congresses as a republican. Emerson, Luther Orlando, musician, composer, was born Aug. 3, 1820, in Parsonsfield, Maine. He has written and compiled many collections of church music. Among

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where the remainder of his life was spent. succeeded Margaret Fuller as editor of the Dial, and was the most prominent figure among the transcendentalists. As a lec-

He

was frequently before the public, in his writings faced a world-wide publie as a philosophical thinker. His first volume of poems appeared in 1847, followed in 1867 by May-Day and Other Pieces. His prose writipgs are comprised in Nature; Essays, first and second series; Representative turer he

and

Men; English ciety

and

Traits; Conduct of Life; SoLetters and Social Aims

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