property was very much influenced by the ever thoughtful kindness of Mr. Thomas Sully, the eminent painter, who advised it. It was also by this gentleman and his family that the chief attentions and comforting solicitude were shown during the last hours of the invalid artist. He died on Washington's birthday, in the year 1841, and was therefore in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and was buried in Ronaldson's Cemetery.

REV. DR. MICHAEL EGAN.

REV. DR. EGAN was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, July 22d, 1814, in the fiftythird year of his age. He was greatly respected and regretted. His remains were laid out in state for several days and nights at the Roman Catholic Church in Willing's Alley before they were interred. He was consecrated Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church of Philadelphia by the Most Rev. Archbishop, Dr. John Carroll, October 28th, 1810.

SAMUEL EMLEN, M.D.

BY DR. MEIGS.

DR. EMLEN was born in Chester County, State of Pennsylvania, March 6th, 1789. As springing from one of the oldest and most respectable families of Friends, he received, of course, in his early education, all the advantages which their strict example and sedulous inculcation of good morals could bestow. His education was chiefly English, but, as it was carefully superintended, he laid in it a solid foundation of knowledge, on which he afterwards erected a considerable structure of various and available information.

Dr. Emlen's acquirements were more solid than specious, and

produced in him those excellent fruits which have caused his death to be so much regretted.

In the year 1808, having resolved to devote himself to the profession of medicine, he placed himself, as a house-pupil, with Dr. Parrish, of this city; and, under his roof, and with his example constantly before him, made rapid progress in his studies; to which, by the testimony of his teacher, he absolutely devoted himself.

Under the roof of Dr. Parrish, and as a member of his family, Dr. Emlen passed four years; during which, having attended the lectures delivered in the University by the Professors, Rush, Wistar, Barton, Physick, James, and Coxe, he graduated M. D.; and, in June, 1812, embarked at New York for England.

Arrived at London, in July, he placed himself in the vicinity of one of the great hospitals, where he sedulously endeavored to acquire the greatest amount of practical and surgical knowledge. Attendance on hospital practice, or lectures by the celebrated individuals whose reputation had attracted him thither; conversation with celebrated men, to the houses of many of whom he had free and familiar access; and visits to objects which interest the man of science, or the philanthropist, kept his mind on the stretch; and he accumulated a large stock of information, of which he noted down the heads in his journal, which we have perused with great satisfaction, as affording evidence of the diligence with which he employed himself even at that period.

The declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain, which reached London soon after his arrival, placed no obstacles in the way of his studies while in the metropolis. The detention it occasioned gave him an opportunity, however, of making an extensive tour through England, Ireland, and Scotland ; the history of which is detailed with considerable naïveté in his journal. At length the obstacles to his visit to Paris were removed; and, after a residence of fourteen months in the island, he reached that city about the time of the Emperor's return from Leipzig.

His stay in London, and his frequent access to the society of the most eminent physicians, surgeons, and lecturers, had increased his stock of knowledge; while the elegant society in which he moved,

although it never abolished the gravity of his carriage, or the serious and sententious style of his conversation, imparted, nevertheless, to his manners, that urbane cast which is far more estimable and trustworthy than the false and heartless elegance of more fashionable intercourse. They were marked by the gentleness, self-possession, and confidence, which belong to the gentleman. In Paris, though daily attracted by the extraordinary events of that eventful period of history, Dr. Emlen continued to attend mainly to the objects of his visit. The battles fought in the vicinity filled the hospitals with soldiers suffering under every species of military accidents, which he carefully studied.

After the surrender of the French capital, he returned to London in June; from whence he proceeded to Holland, and came home in the corvette John Adams, as the bearer of despatches for the Government, after an absence of nearly two years and a half.

Soon after his arrival, he commenced the practice of physic, and was elected one of the physicians of the Philadelphia Dispensary,— an excellent school of practice, through which most of the eminent practitioners here have passed.

In 1819 he resigned this station, in consequence of increasing occupations, soon after which he was elected to be one of the managers; and, finally, after the death of his revered friend, Dr. Griffiths, became secretary to that charity.

During the year 1819, when the yellow fever prevailed along the water-margin of the city, Dr. Emlen was Secretary to the Board of Health, and made those observations of which the fruit is to be found in his valuable paper on Yellow Fever.

As member of the Board of the Guardians of the Poor, as physician to the Magdalen Asylum, the Orphan Asylum, and the Friends' Asylum for the Insane, he established broadly and deeply the foundations of a reputation which tended daily to raise him in the public esteem.

He succeeded Dr. Griffiths as Secretary to the College of Physicians; and to his zeal is undoubtedly owing much of the renewed activity and efficiency which mark the present course of that institution.

In 1825, he was elected one of the physicians to the Pennsylvania Hospital, an office to which he was annually re-elected; a suf

ficient proof of the assiduity and ability with which he discharged the functions of that honorable and responsible situation.

This excellent man sat not down contented with the discharge of merely his professional duties. He had acquired very solemn impressions of the magnitude of the evils which the vice of drunkenness has brought on the country; and few persons, although much attention has been given to it by some of the foremost men of the time, had accumulated more of statistic knowledge on the point than himself. In the organization of the Pennsylvania Society for Discouraging the Use of Ardent Spirits, as well as in its administration as manager, he took a very active and discreet part. Dr. Emlen's private business occupied a very large share of his time. It had augmented rapidly during the last few years of his life; so that, with his public and private affairs, he had little leisure for visits of ceremony, or for any waste of that time, which, in his eyes, was so valuable.

In the year 1819, he married Beulah Valentine, who was, like himself, a member of the Friends' Society. In the tender relations which this union produced, he found the purest sources of happiness. To his children he bore an affection that might be called passionate. We presume to say, that the fire of parental love glowed in his breast with redoubled intenseness, perhaps because of the habitual restraint under which he was accustomed to hold his passions. How lamentable must have seemed the stroke which divided him in this world from that care and watchfulness over his children, which appeared to be, for him, the best part of existence! Nevertheless, in committing his family, as he did, on his death-bed, to the providential care of his Maker, he seemed to have acquired a calmness and submission that permitted no murmuring word to escape his lips, nor allowed of one sign of impatience or wilfulness to express his unwillingness to meet that fate for which he was prepared by a blameless life.

He was daily rising in solid reputation, and in the general estimation of his fellow-citizens, when he fell a victim to an attack of remittent fever, on the 17th April, 1828, in the 39th year of

NATHANIEL EVANS.

MR. EVANS was born in Philadelphia, June 8th, 1742. He was educated at the Academy of that city, and then apprenticed to a merchant. At the expiration of his indentures he entered the college, which had in the mean time been established. At the commencement in 1765, he received the degree of Master of Arts, although he had not taken that of Bachelor, in consequence of the interruption in his studies. He immediately after left for England, for the purpose of being ordained, and returned in December of the same year, having passed a highly successful examination as one of the missionaries of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and was stationed in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where he remained, occupied with the duties of his profession, until his death, October 29th, 1767.

OLIVER EVANS.

OLIVER EVANS, a mechanic, was a descendant of Evan Evans, D.D., the first Episcopal minister of Philadelphia, who died in 1728. He made various improvements in the arts. His iron foundry, steam factory, and steam mill, were located at Philadelphia. He died at New York, April 15th, 1819, aged sixty-four years. He published "The Young Engineer's Guide," 1805; "Millers' and Millwrights' Guide," 25 plates, 1807; first edition, 1795. The last work was patronized by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Randolph, and Robert Morris, and their names appear in the list of subscribers to it.

Much of our steam invention we owe to our own citizen, Oliver Evans. He even understood the application of it to wagons. As early as 1787, the Legislature of Maryland granted him its exclusive use for fourteen years; and, in 1781, he publicly stated he