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Massarhnsctis Missionary Magazine, the Conneclicut Eramjelical Magazine, aud other periodicals. He received from Dartinoutii the degree of A.M. in 1786, and that of D.D. in 1798. He pubiislied six vohunes of sermons, 1800-2(5. and a seventh vol- ume was issued in ISoO. His collected works were published in six volumes in 1842, with a memoir by his son-in-law, Dr. Jacob Ide. See also a memoir by Edwards A. Park (1861). He diel in Franklin, Mass., St'i.t. 23. 1840.

EMMONS, Samuel Franklin, geologist, was born in Boston. Mass.. March 29. 1841; son of Natlianiel Henry and Eliziibeth Ware (Wales) Emmons: great-grandson of Samuel Franklin who was a cousin of Benjamin Franklin, and a desrt'u.laiit of Tliunias Emmons, who came to Boston in 1640. He was graduated from Harvard in 1861 and went to Paris, France, where he pur- sued a course of study in the Ecole des Mines, from which he was graduated in

1864. He attended the Bergakademie, Freiberg, Saxony, in

1865, and returned to America in 1866. From 1867 to 1877 he was geologist on the United States geo- logical exploration of the fortieth parallel. In 1870 he surveyed Mount Rainier, the highest peak in the Rocky mountains, and in 1872 in- vestigated and exposed the Arizona diamond field swindle. He was placed in charge of the Rocky Mountain division of the U.S. geolog- ical survey in 1879. In 1880, in association with G. F. Becker, he had charge of the statistics of the precious metaLs of the U.S. for the tenth cen- sus. He was married Feb. 14, 1889, to Sophie Dallas Markoe. who died June 19. 1896. He was elected an honorary member of the American philosophical society and a member of the Na- tional academy of sciences, and other scientific societies. He is the author of numerous contri- butions to geological literature, especially in the field of economic geolog}', the best known of which is the Geology and Mining Industry of Lead- viVe, Colorado (1886).

EMORY, John, M.E. bishop, was born in Queen Anne county, Md.. April 11, 1789. He attended Washington college, Chestertown, Md., and in 1808 was admitted to the bar. He aban- doned his profession in 1810. to enter the Metho- dist Epi.scopal ministry. He was elected to the general conference in 1816 and was a delegate to

each succeeding general conference, with one ex- ception, for sixteen years. In 1820 he was sent as a delegate to the British Wesleyan conference and in 1824 became Methodist book agent and editor of the Christian Advocate in New York city. He was founder and for some time editor of the Mi'thodist Quarterly Review. In 1832 he was elected and ordained a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. He published: The Divinity of Christ Vindicated, and Difence of Our Fathers. He died in Reistertown, Md., Dec. 17, 1835.

EMORY, Robert, educator, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., July 29, 1814; son of the Rev. John Emory, afterward M.E. bishop. He was gradu- ated from Columbia in 1831 and for two years studied law. He held the chair of ancient lan- guages in Dickinson college, 1834-39. resigning in the latter year to become a Methodist Episco- pal minister. In 1842 he returned to his profes- sorship at Dickinson, and was also president of the college pro tempore. After the resignation of President Durbin in 1845 he was elected presi- dent and held the office 1845-48. Columbia con- ferred upon him the degree of S.T.D. in 1846. He published: Life of Bishop Emery (1841); and History of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1843). He died in Baltimore, Md., May 18, 1848.

EMORY, William Hemsley, soldier, was born in Poplar Grove, Queen Anne county, Md., Sept. 9, 1811. He was a first cousin of Bishop John Emory. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1831, and was appointed to the 4th artillery as lieutenant. He was on garrison duty In Charleston, S.C, during the nullification ex- citement and resigned in 1836 to engage as a civil engineer. He was reappointed to the army as 1st lieutenant, in July, 1837, and was assigned to the tojKJgraphical engineer service. He was en- gaged on the Delaware breakwater and in the survey of the northwestern boundary, 1837-46. He accompanied General Kearny from Benfs Fort, Ark., tlirough Sante Fe, San Pa.squel. across the jilains of Mesa to San Francis, 1846-47, was brevetted captain for his action at San Pas- quel, Dec. 6, 1846, and major for San Gabriel, Jan. 9, 1847. He served on Kearny's staff as cap- tain and brevet major wlien that officer was in command of Vera Cruz in 1847 and of the city of Mexico in 1848. He was on topographical duty on the Mexican boundary line, 1848-53, and for this service was promoted lieutenant-colonel. He was transferred to Kansas as major of the 2d cavalry in 1854, and to Utah in 1858. He cap- tured a body of Confederate troop<5 from Texas at Fort Arbuckle in 1861 and with his own com- mand carried them to Fort Leavenwortli, Kan., the first prisoners of war taken by Federal troops in the war of the rebellion. On reaching Wash-