17 Facts About John Emory

John Emory was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832.

John Emory was born at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Anne's County, Maryland.

John Emory's parents were Methodists, his father a jurist who designed him for the law.

John Emory's eldest son Robert, born in 1814, became a professor of Latin and Greek at Dickinson College in 1836 and later its president.

John Emory was educated by tutors at Easton and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.

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John Emory experienced "saving grace" at a Quarterly Meeting in 1806.

John Emory became well known, and his services were much in demand throughout the Middle States.

John Emory was elected a Member of the General Conference of 1816, and then to each succeeding General Conference through 1832 .

John Emory was sent as a delegate to the British Wesleyan Conference in 1820.

John Emory was appointed Book Agent and Editor for the M E Church in 1824, with offices in New York City.

John Emory was especially active in promoting the improvement of the literature of the M E Church.

John Emory was prominent in the founding of New York University and of Wesleyan University, and was one of the principal organizers of Dickinson College as a Methodist school.

John Emory was of a logical turn of mind, and had command of a pure, clear, and vigorous style.

Bishop John Emory died in an 1835 carriage accident near his Maryland home.

Bishop John Emory is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore near the graves of Bishops Francis Asbury and Beverly Waugh.

John Emory United Methodist Church in New Oxford, PA, erected in 1887, was named for him after he helped to establish the John Emory Sunday School during the church's early years - between 1832 and 1835.

Bishop John Emory, presiding at the New Hampshire Conference in August 1835, opposed abolitionism.