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New York state and at Fort Adams, R.I., 1840-45; in military occupation of Texas, 1845-4G; and served in the war with Mexico, 1846-48, engaging in the siege of Vera Cruz, the battle of Cerro Gordo, the capture of San Antonio, the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey and Chapultei)ec, and the assjxult and capture of the city of Mexico. He was brevetted captain, Aug. 20, 1847, for gallantry at Contreras and Churu- busco. He served as adjutant, 2d artillery, 1847- 48; in garrison in Virginia and North Carolina, 184S-49, and in the Florida war with the Semi- noles, 1849-50. He was promoted captain, Feb. 14, 1849, and served in garrison and on frontier duty until 1861. He resigned, April 25, 1861, and joined the Confederate army with the rank of colonel, gaining promotion to the rank of briga- dier-general. In 1852, by permission of the legislature, he adopted the surname Elzy in compliance with the wish of his father, as the family name had become extinct with the mar- riage of his paternal grandmother. After the close of tl\e war he engaged in planting near Jessup's Cut, Anne Arundel county, Md. He was married in 1845 to Ellen, daughter of Henry Irwin of Huntington county. Pa. He died in Baltimore. Md.. Feb. 21, 1871.

EMBRY, James Crawford, A.M.E. bishop, was born in Knox county, Ind., Nov. 2, 1834. He served early in the civil war as a hand on a U.S. supply boat in Grant's army in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was ordained a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in August, 1863, and held various charges till 1876 when he was made secretary of education by the general conference and two years later became financial secretary and treasurer. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical conference in London, England, 1881, and to the Centennial conference, Balti- more, Md., in 1884. He became general manager of the publishing department of the A.M.E. churcli in 1884, and in May, 1897, was elected bisliop and assigned to the South Carolina dis- trict. He wrote and published: Condition and ProKpccts of the Colored American. He served on the examining board of Wilberforce university, Xenia, Ohio, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from that institution. He died at Phila- delphia, Pa., Aug. 11, 1897.

EMBURY, Philip, pioneer Methodist, was born in Ballygaran, Ireland, Sept. 21, 1729; son of German emigrants from the Palatinate. He was a carpenter with a fair education. Under the preaching of Wesley he was influenced to embrace the Methodist faith in 1752, and he became a local preacher in 1758. In 1760 he immigrated to America and worked as a carpen ter in New York city. In 1766, after hearing Barbara Heck preach, his religious ardor revived

and he held services in his house on Barrack street and in a rigging loft on the east side of the city in William street. His congregation is claimed to have been the first assembly of Meth- odists in America. He built the first Methodist church, on John street in 1768, and preached there one year. He removed to Camden, Washington county, N.Y., in 1769, where he worked as a carpenter and preached everj^ Sunday. At Ash Grove, near his house, he organized the first Methodist society in northern New York, after- ward in the Troy conference. A monument was erected in 1873 over the spot in Woodland ceme- tery, Cambridge, N.Y., to which his remains had been removed in 1866. He died in Camden, N. Y., in August, 1775.

EMERSON, Alfred, archfeologist, was born in Greencastle, Pa., Feb. 25, 1859; son of Prof. Edwin and Mary L. (Ingham) Emerson; and grandson of James and Ann J. Emerson, and of the Hon. Samuel D. and Deborah K. (Hall) Ing- ham. He studied at a school in Paris, France, 1862-67 ; at a German school in Dresden, Saxony, 1867-72; at the gjmiuasial school of the Briider- gemeine of Neuwied on the Rhine, 1872-74; at the Polytechnic, Munich, Bavaria, 1874; in Greece with Professor Stei-ret, 1875-77, where lie pursued a course in modern Greek and archajol- ogy ; in the University of Munich as a student of classical philo ogj', 1877-81, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1881; as a post-graduate at the Col- lege of New Jersey, Princeton, 1881-82; and as a fellow at Johns Hopkins university, 1882-86, where he aided in founding the American Journal of Arclneology. He was professor of Latin at Miami university, Oliio, 1887-88; professor of Greek at Lake Forest university. 111., 1889; profes- sor of classical archaeology at Cornell university, N.Y.. 1891-97; and professor of classical studies at the American school at Athens, Greece, 1897- 99. He was married, July 28, 1887, to Alice Edwards of Auburndale, Mass. He is the autiior of A Short History of Classical Archccology in the Last Ten Years (1891) and numerous contribu- tions to the American Journal of Archccology, and otlier periodicals.

EMERSON, Benjamin Dudley, philanthropist, was born in Hampstead, N.H., in 1781. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1805 and became a school teacher, first in Newburyjiort and later as principal of the Adams grammar school in Bos- ton, Mass. With his brother Frederick (born 1788 ; died in 1857) he prepared school books adapted to the elementary branches, which were generallj' used throughout the country. In his will he left a sum of money for the establishing of a high school in Hampstead. He also be- queathed SIOO.OOO to Dartmouth college. He died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., Oct. 2, 1872.