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Emerson, Alfred – Emerson, Luther Orlando
Emerson, Alfred
archaeologist, educator, author, was born in 1859, in Pennsylvania. He is an archaeologist; and professor at Cornell university since 1891. He is the author of Dissertatio de Hercule Homerico.
EMERSON, BENJAMIN KENDALL, geologist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1843, in Nashua, N. H. For many years he held the chair of geology and mineralogy in Amherst college, and subsequently became United States geologist. He is the author of several works on geology.
Emerson, Charles Noble
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 6, 1821, in Massachusetts. He was a Massachusetts lawyer, commissioner of revenue, who published Internal Revenue Guide; and Handbook of Internal Revenue for Popular Use. He died April 15, 1869, in New York city.
Emerson, Edward Waldo
educator, author, was born in 1844, in Massachusetts. He is an instructor in art anatomy, living at Concord, Mass., and the author of Emerson in Concord.
EMERSON, MRS. ELLEN RUSSELL, author, was born Jan. 16, 1837, in New Sharon, Maine. She is the author of Indian Myths; and has always taken deep interest in Indian history. Her latest work is entitled Masks, Heads, and Faces, with Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art.
Emerson, Frederick
educator, author, was born Nov. 28, 1788, in Hampstead, N. H. He was a prominent Boston educator, and superintendent of schools, who published a series of popular arithmetics, chief among which was the North American Arithmetic. He died in 1857, in Boston, Mass.
Emerson, Freeman O
merchant. legislator, was born Jan. 12, 1855, in Gorham, N. H. He is a successful merchant of Boston, Mass.; was a member of the city council during 1894-96; and in 1897 served with distinction as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Emerson, George Barrell
educator, author, was born Sept. 12, 1797, in Kennebunk, Maine. He was an educator of Boston, of much prominence and wide influence, and the author of Lectures on Education; The School and the Schoolmaster (with A. Potter); Manual of Agriculture (with C. L. Flint); Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts; and Reminiscences of an Old Teacher.
He died March 14, 1881, in Newton, Mass.
Emerson, Irving
composer, was born Nov. 4, 1842, in Brighton, Maine.
He is chorus director and supervisor of music in the public schools of Hartford, Conn. He is the author of a number of anthems; a few songs and piano pieces; and several singing books for public schools.
Emerson, James E
machinist, inventor, was born Nov. 2, 1823, in Maine. For many years he manufactured edge tools in Trenton, N. J.; and received large contracts for swords and sabres from the government 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; and other mechanical appliances.
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 Hollis, N. H. He established an academy at Byfield, Mass.; wrote 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, Luther Orlando
musician, was born Aug. 3, 1820, in Parsonsfield, Maine. He has written and compiled many collections of church music. Among them The Romberg Collection; The Golden Wreath; The Golden Harp; The Sabbath Harmony; The Harp of Judah; Merry Chimes; Jubilate; and sundry other collections.