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tees of the New Public Library ; his own brother, George 

 R. Emmerton, being the first. He was a son of the late 

 Ephraim Emmerton and lived in the old family mansion, 

 on Summer street. He was born August 28, 1834, pur- 

 sued his preparatory studies at the Salem Latin School, 

 under the principulship of Oliver Carlton ; graduated at 

 Harvard College in the class of 1855 ; the Harvard Medical 

 School in 1858 ; spent six months abroad in 1858-9, a resi- 

 dent student at the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital, and attend- 

 ant surgeon Wildes' Eye and Ear Cliniques at Dublin. 



At the commencement of hostilities, he enlisted in com- 

 pany "F," 23d Reg. Vol. Infantry in October, 1861, and 

 was warranted as corporal. His army record is as follows : 



Corporal, Co. F, 23d Mass. Vols., October 1, 1861 ; left 

 the state November 11, 1861 ; battle at Roanoke Island, 

 N. C. ; as volunteer served a howitzer gun landed from a 

 transport, and the same at the battle of Newbern ; detailed 

 acting Asst. Surgeon, 23d Mass. Vols., April, 1862 ; Asst. 

 Surgeon, 23d Mass. Vols., July 31, 1862 ; ordered toRoan- 

 oke Island, August 24, 1862 ; Post Surgeon, Plymouth, 

 September 28 ; ordered to Foster U. S. Gen. Hospital, 

 Newbern, January, 1863 ; rejoined his Regiment, at New- 

 port News, Va., October 22 ; joined the rendezvous with 

 his Regiment, April, 1864 ; in the field of action between 

 the Appomattox and James Rivers, in May, and Cold Har- 

 bor in June: Surgeon, 2d Mass. H. A., May 26, 1864; 

 joined his regiment at Newbern, N. C., June 27 ; went with 

 five companies of his regiment to open communications with 

 General Sherman, March 3, 1865 ; in charge of Post Hos- 

 pital, May ; mustered out, September 3, 1865. 



Alter leaving the army where his gallantry was conspic- 

 uous he was assistant physician in the New York State Lu- 

 natic Asylum, at Utica,in 1866-7 ;retiring from this position 

 he gave up the practice of medicine and devoted much of 



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