Ely, Richard Theodore – Emerton, Ephraim
Ely, Richard Theodore
educator, author, was born April 13, 1854, in Ripley, N. Y. Since 1892 he has been professor of political economy and director of the school of economics, political science and history in the university of Wisconsin. He is the author of French and German Socialism in Modern Times; The Past and Present of Political Economy; Taxation in American States and Cities; Problems of To-Day; Political Economy; Social Aspects of Christianity; and Outlines of Economics.
Ely, Smith
merchant, congressman, was born in 1825, in New Jersey. He was elected a school trustee; in 1857 to the state senate; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-fourth congresses as a democrat. He died July 28, 1884.
Ely, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1815. He died in 1817.
Ely, William G
soldier, was born about 1835. He served in the civil war and was brevetted a brigadier-general.
Ely, William Mather
farmer, merchant, legislator, was born in 1818, in Binghamton, N. Y. He was for several years president of the state agricultural society. In 1868 he was elected to the legislature, and served till his death.
He died Feb. 5, 1872, in Binghamton, N. Y.
Elzey, Arnold
soldier, was born Dec. 18, 1816, in Somerset county, Md.
In 1861 he entered the confederate service with the rank of colonel; and was subsequently promoted major-general. He died Feb. 21, 1871, in Baltimore, Md.
Emanuel, David
governor, was born in 1742. He settled in Burke county, Ga.; was president of the senate; and in 1801 governor of Georgia. He died in 1808, in Burke county, Ga.
Embree, Elisha
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1801, in Lincoln county, Ky. He was elected to the state senate of Indiana; and in 1835 was chosen circuit judge, which office he held for ten years. In 1847 he was elected representative in the thirtieth congress from Indiana. He died Feb. 28, 1863, in Princeton, N. J.
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
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, Brown
clergyman, was born Jan. 8, 1778, in Ashby, Mass. He was ordained in 1805 as Dr. Daniel Hopkins' colleague in the pastorate of the old South church of Salem, where he remained till his death, being sole pastor from 1816 till 1849. He died July 25, 1872, in Salem, Mass.
Emerson, Charles Franklin
educator, was born Sept. 28, 1843, in Chelmsford, Mass. In 1869 he became instructor in mathematics in the college proper, and in 1872 associate professor of natural philosophy, succeeding in 1878 to full possession of that chair. His work has consisted largely in the development of the physical laboratory in Dartmouth, for which purpose he traveled extensively through Europe during 1883-84.
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.
Emerson, Philip H
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1834, in Danby, Vt. He was city attorney of Battle Creek, Mich., from 1865 to 1873; trustee and president of school board from 1868 to 1873; served in the state senate; and United States associate justice of the supreme court of Utah from 1873 to 1885.
Emerson, Ralph
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 18, 1787, in Hollis, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman, professor in Andover Theological seminary in 1829-53, and author of Life of Joseph Emerson; and translation of Wisgon's Augustinianism and Pelagianism. He died May 20, 1863, in Rockford, Ill.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born May 25, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was the most distinguished of American essayists, and by some critics ranked as the foremost American poet when the substance of his poetry is considered apart from its form. He was ordained in 1829 as a unitarian minister in Boston, but retired from the profession in 1833, and the next year settled in Concord, Mass., where the remainder of his life was spent.
He succeeded Margaret Fuller as editor of The Dial, and was the most prominent figure among the transcendentalists.. As a lecturer he was frequently before the public, and in his writings faced a worldwide public as a philosophical thinker. His first volume of poems appeared in 1847, followed in 1867 by May-Day and Other Pieces. His prose writings are comprised in Nature; Essays, first and second series; Representative Men; English Traits; Conduct of Life; Society and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Lectures and Biographical Sketches; Miscellanies; and Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers. He died April 27, 1882.
Emerton, Ephraim
educator, author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. He is professor of history at Harvard university, and the author of Introduction to the Study of Mediæval History; Synopsis of the History of Continental Europe; The Practical Method in Higher Historical Instruction; Sir William Temple and die Tripleallianz vom Jahre, 1668; and Mediæval Europe.