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Embry, James Crawford

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 2, 1834, in Knox county, Ind. He is the author of Condition and Prospects of the Colored American.

EMBURY, MRS. EMMA CATHARINE MANLY, poet, author, was born in 1806, in New York city. She was a writer of poetry and prose whose home was in Brooklyn. Her various works include Guido and Other Poems; The Blind Girl and Other Tales: The Waldorf Family, Fairy Tale; Female 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 New York.. a

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