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steam heating and power company. He was retained by the Edison electric light company, the Pueuinatic dynamite gun company, and tlie city of Full Kiver as consulting engineer, and on his report the mill owners of Fall Kiver and the city entered into a novel compromise whereby the city received water from the AVatuppa ponds in consideration of the abatement of taxes on water power. In 1886 he was appointed non- resident professor of engineering at Sibley col- lege, Cornell university. In 1887 he opened an oflice in New York as a consulting engineer and engineering expert and became connected with a large number of important patent litigations as expert. In 1888 he became consulting engineer for the New York and Brooklyn bridge. In 1889 the Institution of civil engineers of Great Britain awarded him the "Watt medal and Tilford pre- mium for an approved paper. In 1892 he was appointed one of the commissioners in the matter of the purchase of the Long Island water supply company by the city of Brooklyn, and ot the Skaneateles, N.Y., and of the Newark, N.J., water condemnation cases. He then took up the subject of electricity and in 1893 was appointed one of the judges of dynamos and motors at the World's fair at Chicago, lU. In 1895 he was elected chairman of the committee to revise the code for steam lx)iler trials, adopted in 1884 by a committee of which he was also a member. At the time of his death he was engaged upon the final revision of the code, upon the Bound Brook, N.J., flood cases, the Holyoke, IMass., water- power assessment cases, and the city of Worces- ter, 3Iass. , water condemnation cases. He was a member of all the American engineering socie- ties, the British institution, fellow of the Ameri- can Association for the advancement of science and of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences. He was also a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution and the Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He was married, Aug. 6, 1863, to Susan S., daughter of the Hon. Essex Ridley Livingston. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y'., June 1, 1898.

EMERY, Lucilius Alonzo, jurist, was born at Cannel, Maine, July 27, 1840; son of James S. and Eliza (Wing) Emery; grandson of James Emery; and a descendant of Anthonj' Emerj'. He preiKired for college at Hampden academy and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1861. He began the practice of the law in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1863, and was married, Nov. 9, 1864, to Annie S. Crosby. He was chosen state's attorney for Hancock county in 1867 and was elected state senator from the same county in 1874, 1875 and 1881. He was law partner of Eugene Hale, 1869-83; attorney -general of Maine, 1876-79, and justice of the supreme judicial court of that

state from 1883. In 1874 he was appointed an overseer of Bowdoin college and in 1889 he was elected professor of medical jurisprudence in the same institution. He was made a member of the Maine historical society, and vice-president for Maine of the American Medico-Legal society. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin college in 1898.

EMERY, Samuel Hopkins, historian, was born in Boxford, Mass., Aug. 22, 1815; son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Welch) Emery ; grandson of Col. Joseph Welch of Plaistow, N.H., a com- mander of New Hampshire trooi)s during the Revolution; and a descendant of John Emery of Newbury, Mass., who came with his brother Anthony from Romsey, England, in 1635. Sam- uel's father, Joshua, was steward of Andover theological seminary, 1824-49. Samuel was pre- pared for college at Phillips Andover academy and was graduated from Amherst with honors in 1834. He declined a professorship in the State institution for deaf mutes, New \"ork city, and entered Andover theological seminary where he was graduated in 1837. He was pastor of the newly formed Congregational church at Taunton, Mass., 1837-40; pastor at Bedford, Mass., 1840-46; again pastor at Tannton, 1846-55; at Quincy, 111., 1855-69, meanwhile acting as registrar of the State association of churches for ten years and during the civil war serving as hospital chaplain in six hospitals in Quincy; pastor at Providence, R.L, 1869-71; North Bridgeport, Conn., 1871-74; and North Middleborough. Mass., 1874-76. In October, 1876. he became superin- tendent of the Union city mission of- Taunton, afterward known as the Associated Charities of Taunton. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1890-91; chaplain of the G.A.R. ; a member of the Old Colony commission to select and mark historic places, and pastor emeritus of the Winslow church, Taunton, of which he had been twice pastor. He was married, March 7, 1838, to Julia, daughter of Deacon William Reed of Taunton, and had four sons, of whom Samuel Hopkins, Jr., became a lawyer in Boston and a lecturer in the Concord school of philosophy, and subsequently a business man in Quincy, 111. Francis Wolcott Reed served in the Union army during the civil war, afterward engaged in agriculture in Dakota, later became a resident of Taunton, Mass., and was the inventor of the Eaiery process for preserving old records; and Joseph Welch became a member of the firm of Channon & Emery, stove manufacturers, Quincy, 111. Mr. Emery was a charter member, first vice-president and for many years president of the Cld Colony historical society, a correspond- ing member of the Chicago, and other historical societies, and a resident member of the New