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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Baptist Church, New York city, which place 

 he held continuously till the day of his death, a 

 period of forty-three years. He was consid- 

 ered the most skillful reader of raised type in 

 the country, and was widely known as the 

 blind organist. He left a wife and two children 

 whom he had never seen. 



Eliot, William Crecnlcaf, an American educator, 

 born in New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 5, 1811 ; 

 died in Pass Christian, La., Jan. 23, 188V. He 

 was graduated at Columbian College, Wash- 

 ington, D. C., in 1831, and at Harvard Divinity 

 School in 1834. In the latter year he removed 

 to St. Louis, Mo., where he became pastor of 

 the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, main- 

 taining that relation till 1872. During this 

 period he established a reputation for scholar- 

 ship and led an active career as a promoter of 

 educational and reformatory enterprises. In 

 1854, on the organization of the Board of Di- 

 rectors of Washington University of St. Loui$, 

 he was unanimously elected president, and in 

 1872 was induced to resign his pastorate and 

 accept the office of chancellor of the institu- 

 tion. He was an energetic, self-denying, and 

 zealous officer, faithfully discharging his duty 

 till within a short time of his death, despite 

 extreme feebleness. 



Embree, Effingham, an American manufacturer, 

 born in New York city in 1817 ; died in West- 

 field, N. J., April 28, 1887. His connection 

 with the paper business began when he was 

 fourteen years old, as clerk in the office of 

 Caleb Bartlett. Soon after attaining his ma- 

 jority he established a book and stationery 

 business in connection with his brother, under 

 the firm-name of A. & E. Embree. Subse- 

 quently he was associated with E. B. Clayton 

 & Sons in Burling Slip, and was a partner in 

 the firm of Jackson, Embree & Co., in the rag 

 and paper business. About 1867 he was ap- 

 pointed New York manager of the American 

 Wood-Paper Company, whose pulp-works are 

 in Manayunk and Royer's Ford, Pa., and was 

 engaged in that business at the time of his 

 death. Mr. Embree was the pioneer in the in- 

 dustry of making paper from wood-fiber. For 

 several years he met great opposition, both in 

 the paper-trade and in the line of mechanical 

 manipulation of the pulp ; but his energy, per- 

 sistence, and inventive ability enabled him to 

 overcome obstacles and build up a large busi- 

 ness. He felt pride in the progress of the town 

 of Westfield, and contributed in many ways to 

 its advancement. He had been treasurer of 

 the Town Committee, a member of the Board 

 of Health, and a supporter of the public-school 

 system, and was treasurer of the Congrega- 

 tional Church and of Fair view Cemetery. 



Emory, William Helmsley, an American soldier, 

 born in Poplar Grove, Md., in 1811 ; died in 

 Washington, D. 0., Dec. 1, 1887. lie was 

 graduated at the United States Military Acade- 

 my in 1831, and assigned to service as a lieuten- 

 ant in the Fourth Artillery, serving in garrisons 

 at Fort McHenry, Fort Severn, and in Charles- 



ton harbor during the nullification excitement. 

 He resigned his commission in 1836, and spent 

 two years in civil engineering, being reappoint- 

 ed to the army as first lieutenant in the corps 

 of topographical engineers, July 7, 1837. From 

 this date till 1846 he was employed in surveys 

 on coast fortifications and in establishing the 

 boundary between the United States and the 

 British provinces. In 1846-'47 he was acting 

 assistant adjutant-general on Gen. Kearny's 

 staff during the expedition to California. He 

 was brevetted captain for meritorious conduct 

 at San Pasqual, Dec. 6, 1846, and major for 

 services at San Gabriel and the Plains of Mesa, 

 Jan. 9, 1847. After this campaign he surveyed 

 the new boundary-line between the United 

 States and Mexico, for which he was promoted 

 to be lieutenant-colonel. In 1855 he was ap- 

 pointed major of the Second Cavalry and trans- 

 ferred to the First, serving on the frontier till 

 the opening of the civil war, when he declined 

 overtures to surrender his command and join 

 the Confederate forces, captured a body of 

 Texas troops raised for the Confederacy at 

 Fort Arbuckle, and took them the first pris- 

 oners of war and his command to Fort Leav- 

 enworth, Kan. He was appointed lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Sixth United States Cavalry in 

 1861, and promoted to be brigadier-general 

 of volunteers in 1862, serving under Gens. 

 Stoneman and McClellan in the Army of the 

 Potomac, and having command of a brigade 

 of cavalry at Harrison's Landing. For his 

 services in the siege of Yorktown, the battle 

 of Williamsburg, and the action at Hanover 

 Court-House, he was brevetted colonel in the 

 regular army. On the landing of a secret ex- 

 pedition at New Orleans, which he had organ- 

 ized in Baltimore in December, 1862, he was 

 assigned to the command of the Nineteenth 

 Army Corps, and in the following spring was 

 with the column in the attack on Port Hudson, 

 which movement covered the passage of the 

 fort by Admiral Farragut's fleet. While in 

 command of New Orleans, he repelled attacks 

 by the Confederate Gen. Taylor at Donaldson- 

 ville and the La Fourche Crossing. He took part 

 in the Red River campaign, was in command 

 at Morganzia, and for his services in the Shen- 

 andoah campaign was brevetted a brigadier- 

 general in the regular army. In October, 

 1864, he was brevetted a major-general ; in 

 September, 1865, placed in command of the 

 Department of West Virginia ; and in January, 

 1866, mustered out of the volunteer service. 

 After the war he was in command of the De- 

 partment of Washington, succeeded Gen. Sher- 

 idan in New Orleans, and was a member and 

 president of the Retiring Board till July 1, 1876, 

 when he was placed on the retired list with 

 the rank of brigadier-general U. S. Army. 



Ezzard, William, an American lawyer, born 

 near Athens, Clarke County, Ga., June 12, 

 1798; died in Atlanta, Ga., March 24, 1887. 

 He removed to the site of the present city of 

 Atlanta in 1824, was admitted to the bar, and 



