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584 EMMETT EMORY farewell before leaving the country. He was tracked, apprehended, tried, and convicted of high treason, lie defended his own cause, delivering an address to the judge and jury of remarkable eloquence and pathos, met his fate with courage, and won general admiration for the purity and loftiness of his motives. His fate and that of Miss Curran are subjects of two of the finest of Moore's Irish melodies. II. Thomas Addis, a politician and lawyer, brother of the preceding, born in Cork, April 24, 1764, died in New York, Nov. 14, 1827. He gradu- ated at Trinity college, Dublin, studied medi- cine at the university of Edinburgh, visited the most celebrated schools of the continent, then selected the legal profession, studied two years at the Temple in London, and was admitted to the bar of Dublin in 1791. He soon became a leader of the association of United Irishmen, and was one of a general committee to super- intend all similar associations, having rebellion for their ultimate object. He was arrested with many of his associates in 1798, and was finally conveyed a prisoner to Fort George in Scotland, where he was confined for more than two years. After the treaty of Amiens he was liberated and permitted to withdraw to France, the severest penalties being pronounced against him if he should return to Ireland. His wife obtained permission to join him on condition that she should never again set foot on British soil. From Brussels, where he passed the win- ter of 1802-'3, he saw his brother Robert em- bark in the enterprise which led him to the scaffold. He came to America in 1804, rose to eminence in his profession in New York, and was attorney general of that state in 1812. While in prison in Scotland he wrote sketches of Irish history, illustrative especially of the political events in which he had taken part, which were printed in New York in 1807, under the title " Pieces of Irish History." His biography was written by C. G. Haynes (Lon- don, 1829), and a monument was erected to him in St. Paul's churchyard, New York. III. John Patton, an American physician, son of the preceding, born in Dublin, April 8, 1797, died in New York, Aug. 13, 1842. He came with his father and other Irish exiles to the United States, was educated for three years in the military school at West Point, resided one year in Italy, and studied medicine after his return. His delicate health obliging him to seek a milder climate, he removed to Charleston in 1822, and began practice. He was in 1824 elected pro- fessor of chemistry and natural history in the university of Virginia, and during several years was a contributor to Silliman's "Journal." EMMETT, a N. W. county of Iowa, bordering on Minnesota, and intersected by the East and West forks of Des Moines river ; area, about 450 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 1,392. There are several lakes in the county. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 29,621 bushels of wheat, 12,816 of Indian corn, 27,819 of oats, and 6,948 tons of hay. Capital, Ester ville. EMMETTSBURG, a town of Frederick co., Maryland, about 50 m. N. W. of Baltimore; pop. in 1870, 706. It contains several churches, an academy, an institute for girls under the care of the sisters of charity, and Mount St. Mary's college and theological seminary, a Ro- man Catholic institution, organized in 1808. In 1871 the college had 26 professors and in- structors, 161 students, and a library of 8,000 volumes; the theological department had 4 professors and 25 students. EM3IOJVS, Nathanael, an American theologian, born in East Haddam, Conn., April 20, 1745, died in Franklin, Mass., Sept, 23, 1840. He graduated at Yale college in 1767, was licensed to preach in 1769, and ordained pastor of the church in Franklin in April, 1773, continuing in the pastorate till 1827. He claimed to be a genuine Calvinist, though differing from the theological views of Calvin in several important respects. Of some of his peculiar speculations, one is, that there is no such thing as holiness or sinfulness except in the exercise of the volun- tary affections, so that there is no depravity ex- cept in voluntary disobedience ; and another, that God is the efficient, producing cause of every act of the human mind, thus making the will of God the source of all sinfulness as well as holiness, while every moral act, he would claim, is at the same time perfectly free and voluntary on the part of man. Dr. Emmons was one of the founders and first president of the Massachusetts missionary society, and one of the editors of the " Massachusetts Missionary Magazine." He guided the studies of some 87 theological students. His writings published in his lifetime were numerous, and his com- plete works, in 6 vols., edited with a memoir by the Rev. Jacob Ide, were published in Bos- ton in 1842. See also "Memoir of Nathanael Emmons," by Professor Edwards A. Park, D. D. (Andover, 1861). EMORY. I. John, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, born in Queen Anne's co., Md., April 11, 1789, died in Baltimore co., Dec. 16, 1835. He was admitted to the bar at the age of 19, but soon abandoned the legal profession, and in 1810 joined the Philadelphia conference. During the following ten years he filled important stations in Washington, Philadelphia, Wilmington, and other cities. In 1820 he was chosen the first delegated rep- resentative of the Methodist Episcopal 'church of America to the British Wesleyan conference. From 1824 to 1832 he was book agent and editor of the book concern in New York. In this diffi- cult position he displayed a rare combination of intellectual power and culture with business habits, by which the embarrassments that had surrounded the concern from its organization were entirely removed and a better policy in- augurated. He was the originator of the pub- lishing fund and the founder of the " Methodist Quarterly Review." In 1832 he was elected bishop. In this capacity he was especially active in forwarding the educational interests