John Emory
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John Emory (April 11, 1789 – 1835) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832. He is the namesake for Emory University and Emory & Henry College, both Methodist-affiliated American universities.
Early life and family
John was born at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. His parents were Methodists, his father a jurist who designed him for the law. His mother, however, who had been converted under Garrettson, devoted John at birth to the ministry. His eldest son Robert, born in 1814, became a professor of Latin and Greek at Dickinson College in 1836 and later its president. In 1841 he published a biography of his father, Life of the Rev. John Emory.[2]
He was educated by tutors at Easton and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. He experienced "saving grace" at a Quarterly Meeting in 1806. He studied law in 1805 in the office of Judge R.T. Earle, Centreville, Maryland, and was admitted to the bar in 1808. But his attention soon turned to the pulpit, against his father's protests, and he entered the Traveling Ministry of the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1810.
Ministry
Emory became well known, and his services were much in demand throughout the
He was especially active in promoting the improvement of the literature of the M. E. Church. For example, he founded the "
College and university namesakes
Bishop Emory died in an 1835 carriage accident near his Maryland home.
Bishop Emory is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore near the graves of Bishops Francis Asbury and Beverly Waugh.
Emory United Methodist Church in New Oxford, PA, erected in 1887, was named for him after he helped to establish the Emory Sunday School during the church's early years - between 1832 and 1835.
University of the Pacific named one of the College Park neighborhood streets in San Jose "Emory Street" in his honor.[3]
Position on slavery
Bishop John Emory owned slaves. Bishop Emory, presiding at the New Hampshire Conference in August 1835, opposed abolitionism.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ Regarding the Bishop's death, Emory & Henry College publishes a webpage at the URL: http://www.ehcweb.ehc.edu/emory/johne.htm, which states: "The next year, on December 16, 1835, Bishop Emory was killed in a carriage accident, the brakes apparently failing on a long and steep hill." A dot com website named "Famousamericans" has a page which states: "EMORY, John, M. E. bishop, born in Queen Anne County, Maryland, 11 April 1789; died in Reisterstown, Maryland, 17 December 1835."
References
- ^ "History". www.ehc.edu. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
- ^ "About john Emory". Emory University. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
- ^ Emory Street, San Jose, California
- ^ https://www.mtsu.edu/borders/archives/1/Methodist_Bishops_and_Abolitionism.pdf abolition
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
Sources
- Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Parthenon Press, 1948.
- Border States: Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, No. 1, (1973). Methodist Bishops and Abolitionism, Fred J. Hood, Georgetown College.
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