The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-20
DOCTORE|hERSON
DIES ON return
ALASKAN VOYAGE
Prominent Physician and Police
Surgeon Of Honolulu Passes
Away At Sea
SlS; lt&t{iF@ SIssIsitg
STRICKEN SUDDENLY '.' w
ABOARD COAST SHIP
ttae 4gljWale !lagag' atlC eH,n,r
HAD Eminent Career aid Wrote
Extensively Of Hawaiian His
tory and Folk Lore
STRICKEN SUDDENLY '.'.'
ABOARD COAST SHIP

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Aaeablsgram to his brother, J oseph S.
Emerson, came Yesterday, saying that
Doctor Emerson had died of an apopIee-
Tic seizure in a steamer in which he
Alaska, The day of death was not
given, but II is, believed. to have been
Friday. He died soon before the ship
reached San Francisco.
He sailed for San francisco, juno II,
in the Ventura, alone. He met his
son, Arthur W. Emerson, in san Fran"
cisco, and the two made the voyage to
Alaska and return in the same ship
together. Mrs Emerson left July 3 in
the Sierra TO join them in San Fran
cisco. eve, Il
The son, who IS an artist in New
York, had not seen his father in FIVE
years. Doctor Emerson was seeking
resuperstiOn by, voyage to the North,
as he had been in IA neaIth for some
Rev. oliver r, Emerson, a brother,
Of Providence, Rhode Island, and Mrs.
Emerson, are aboard the Matsonia,
bound for Honolulu They do not
know Of Doctor Emerson Is death. |
DOCJor was On NacaJ1on
The doctor was on vacation from
his professional duties as police sur
geon. Ashes of the body will be
brought here for burial in the family
ground at Waialua, but no word has
come as to when.
Doctor Emerson was seventy-six
years old. He is survived by Mrs.
Emerson, formerly Dir. Sarah r. Pierce,
| whom he married in 1881; by his son,
and by three brothers, Joseph S, Of
Hon olulu, DIR. Justin E., of Detroit, and
Rev. Oliver p. Emerson. DR.. +. d.
Kilbourne Of Honolulu, a second cousin
| one degree removed, is the only other
relative in the Islands. DR.. Nathaniel
B. Emerson. was the oldest of three
brothers, then came Dr. Justin f. Elmer
son, Joseph s. Emerson and Rev. Oliver
| p. Emerson.
Versed In Hawaii Lore
| Probably no man in the Islands was
yersed more profoundly in Hawaiian
folk lore, and there was no superior in
ability to phrase, in graceful and vivid
English, the tales that dropped from
the lips of the old Hawaiians. His
latest and last work, "Pcle and
hiiaka,' came from the press only last
month. He had wished to see it com
pletCd.
- know that he was extremely
pleased that it should be finished and
printed before he died." said Mrs.
Joseph 8. Emerson.
lIOctOr Emerson was fully American
and fully Hawaiian in his sympathies,
IIP was the son of Rev. John S. end
Ursula Sophia Newell Emerson. The
father came here a missionary, of New
England stock, whose beginnings come
from pre- Revolutionary days. Doctor
Emerson was born at Waialua, July |,
1899, and his father was pastor of the
native church there at the time.
Graduate of Williams College
Early education was received at
Oahu College, and then he went to VIII
liams where he was graduated in 1868,
but not before he had served two
Years in the Union Army in the Civil
War, seeing service, as a member OF
the First Massachusetts Volunteers, at
Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and
IGettysburg, besides other engagements.
lie was wounded twice at FTedericKs-
burg in the knee and at ChalcellOrs-
willie in the wrist. That wound healed
in time tor him to be az Gettysburg,
where an exploding shell tore off the
back of his cap, but left him whole.
Although his enlistment expired before
the Richmond campaign, the regiment
remained, and he was in all the bat
ties from the Rapidan to Richmond,
Then he returned to Williams for his
degree. He received his AN. in 1868,
and took course in medicine at Har-
II ward and at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of New York, receiving
his degree of MD. from the latter In
J stttutiOn in 1869. The College of PLY.
sicians and Surgeons is the sc'OOl OF
medicine of Columbia University.
Pioneer Settlement Worker
!, In New York Doctor Emerson was
, associated with the late DR. Willard
Parker. the eminent surgeon, as sju-
dent and assistant, and for several
/ Years was clinical assistant to the late
Doctor Seguin, professor of nervous
diseases at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. He remained in New
York until 1873.
, Then, at the Invitation of 8. g.
e Wilder minister of the Interior of the
KINGDOM and president of the bOari
of health, he returned 20 become gen,
eral inspector of lepers and leper sta
: tons, and thus was one Of the pioneers
, in the settlement work. Soon after he
, opened practise in Honolulu. In 1887,
after the revolution of that year. he
. was made president of the board OF
!, health, succeeding Doctor Troussean,
and he held that position until 1890,
He continued private practise until
about ten years ago, when he became
police surgeon, largely to have more
time to pursue his Hawaiian studies
and Writings. This pOsition he held