Emory, Robert
clergyman, educator, author, was born July 29, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the president of Dickinson college of Carlisle, Pa., in 1842-48. He was the author of Life of Bishop Emory; and History of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died May 18, 1848, in Baltimore, Md. court of common pleas for his county, and in that capacity gave that court a rank among the best of the state. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1809 to 1813; and under the constitution of 1821 was appointed judge for the second district. He died April 7, 1850, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.