which led to the founding of the Methodist Protestant Church he was the chief defender of existing M.E. polity. He was of a logical turn of mind, and had command of a pure, clear, and vigorous style. As a bishop he was largely influential in giving the Methodist Episcopal Book of Discipline its present form. College and university namesakes Bishop Emory died in an 1835 carriage accident near his Maryland home. The next year, Methodists chartered both Emory College (later University) at Oxford, Georgia and Emory & Henry College in southwestern Virginia. (The co-eponym for the latter is Patrick Henry.) Both maintain their Methodist associations. Bishop Emory is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore near the graves of Bishops Francis Asbury and Beverly Waugh. Emory United Methodist Church in New Oxford, PA, erected in 1887, was named for him after he helped to establish the Emory Sunday School during the church's early years - between 1832 and 1835. University of the Pacific named one of the College Park neighborhood streets in San Jose "Emory Street" in his honor. Position on slavery Bishop John Emory owned slaves. Bishop Emory, presiding at the New Hampshire Conference in August 1835, opposed abolitionism. See also List of bishops of the United Methodist Church Notes References Attribution Sources Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Parthenon Press, 1948. Border States: Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, No. 1, (1973). Methodist Bishops and Abolitionism, Fred J. Hood, Georgetown College. External links An Emory History American Methodist Episcopal bishops Founders of schools in the United States 1789 births 1835 deaths American book editors American magazine editors American publishers (people) American religious writers E Wesleyan University people University and college founders Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist ministers Washington College alumni People from Queen Anne's County, Maryland Converts to Christianity Deaths by horse-riding accident in the United States Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Baltimore) 19th-century American journalists 19th-century American bishops 19th-century Methodist bishops