History of Carmel, (Penobscot County) Maine United States of America

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A Biography of Lucilius Alonzo Emery

Lucilius Alonzo Emery, jurist, was born at Carmel, Maine, July 27, 1840; son of James S. and Eliza (Wing) Emery; grandson of James Emery; and a descendant of Anthony Emery. He prepared for college at Hampden academy and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1861. He began the practice of the law in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1863, and was married, Nov. 9, 1864, to Annie S. Cresby. He was chosen state's attorney for Hancock county in 1867 and was elected state senator from the same county in 1874, 1875 and 1881. He was law partner of Eugene Hale, 1869-83; attorney-general of Maine, 1876-79, and justice of the supreme judicial court of that state from 1883. In 1874 he was appointed an overseer of Bowdoin college and in 1889 he was elected professor of medical jurisprudence in the same institution. He was made a member of the Maine historical society, and vice-president for Maine of the American Medico-Legal society. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin college in 1898.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor