Emerson, John S

a Congregational minister and missionary, was born at Chester, N.H., in 1802; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1826, and studied theology at Andover. He had studied with special reference to the missionary work, and went, under the auspices of the American Board, to the Sandwich Islands, and was appointed to Waialua, Oahu, where he spent nearly the whole of his missionary life, laboring with zeal and success. For four years he was professor in the Lahainaluna seminary, and while there he prepared (with other writers) an English-Hawaiian Dictionary. He died at Waialua March 28, 1867. — American Annual Cyclopcedia, 7:559.