BIOGRAPHY: Phillip Augustus Embury; New York co., NY
surname: Embury

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Author: Walter Barrett

Phillip Augustus Embury
Page 157
Old Merchants, 
by Walter Barrett,Clerk,
Knox and Sons, 1885

To the list I might add another old merchant's name. I had much to say of 
Peter Embury and mentioned his son Daniel Embury, president of the Brooklyn 
Bank. On the 2nd of November, a son of the latter was killed by an unknown 
assassin while proceeding to the residence of W.S. Verplanck, about two miles 
from Fishkill Landing.  

Phillip Augustus Embury was a young man of much promise. He was a clerk of an 
insurance company in this city and betrothed to Miss Verplanck. He left the 
city at 5 o'clock Nov 2 in the great storm that raged. It was a fearfully dark 
night; when he left the cars he had proceeded but a few rods when he was 
stabbed in the back by some unknown assassin. His body was not discovered 
until the next day. His age was twenty five. 

His mother was the celebrated authoress Emma C. Embury, the most popular 
poetess and magazine writer of the day, from 1840 to 1850. She is dead.