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German H.H. Emory (1882-1918) was a prominent American lawyer and soldier from Baltimore. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 320th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Sommerance, France November 1, 1918." He was killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in the waning days of World War I. He is commemorated with a memorial painting and two memorial sculptures in Maryland courthouses. == Birth and education == German H.H. Emory was born on September 27, 1882, in Murner's Branch, Allegany County, Maryland. His father, William Hopper Emory (1849-1908), was an insurance broker. His mother was Eleanor Louisa Hunt (1851-1927). He grew up at 1403 West Lanvale Street in Baltimore, which is now the site of Harlem Park Middle School. The Emory Family has deep roots on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Arthur Emory, Sr. (c. 1640-1699) arrived in Maryland in the 1660s. In 1667 he is reputed to have received from Lord Baltimore several land grants on the Wye, Choptank, and Chester rivers on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The Poplar Grove Plantation, near Centreville, Maryland, is the ancestral home of the Emorys. It lies on Spaniard Neck, a peninsula on the south side of the Chester River in Queen Anne’s County, just above the mouth of the Corsica River. Today the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience is overseeing the Poplar Grove Project, an ongoing exploration of the Emory family’s papers, in conjunction with the Maryland State Archives. To date, over 28,406 documents have been recovered and scanned. The Emory family produced two celebrated military men in the 19th century: Col. Thomas Emory, (1782-1842), and one of his sons, General William H. Emory. German was named after his maternal grandfather, German Horton Hunt (1828-1907), a leading Baltimore manufacturer of the 19th century, whose Poole and Hunt Engineering and Machine Company produced machinery and castings for a world-wide market from 1853 to 1889. Emory was educated in Baltimore, at The Hill School, near Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and at St. Luke's School in Philadelphia. He then entered the University of Maryland School of Law, the second oldest law school in the country. While there he joined the Eta Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa, a social fraternity, and became the 51st member to sign the Eta Chapter Roll. Graduating from the law school earlier than others, he was forced to wait until his twenty-first birthday to be admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1903. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German Horton Hunt Emory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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