Emmor Kimber (1775–1850), educator, publisher, and Quaker minister, was a teacher in Philadelphia by 1799 and later wrote an arithmetic textbook. He established a printing and stationery partnership with Solomon White Conrad by 1806. Kimber opened a boarding school for girls by 1818 at French Creek farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1831 he received a patent for a “Carriage, locomotive, and rails adapted thereto.” Kimber’s varied philanthropic activities included providing aid to runaway slaves (Sidney A. Kimber, The Descendants of Richard Kimber [1894], 38; Emmor Kimber, Arithmetic Made Easy to Children, 2d ed. [Philadelphia, 1805]; Kimber & Conrad to TJ, 7 June 1809; James Robinson, Robinson’s Philadelphia Register and City Directory, for 1799 [Philadelphia, 1799]; Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1806 [Philadelphia, 1806]; West Chester, Pa., Village Record, or Chester and Delaware Federalist, 14 Jan. 1818, 15 Nov. 1820; List of Patents description begins A List of Patents granted by the United States from April 10, 1790, to December 31, 1836, 1872 description ends , 488–9; Franklin Institute, Journal 8 [1831]: 22–3; Robert C. Smedley, History of the Underground Railroad [1883], 194; Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, 2 Sept. 1850).

The enclosed review praised the accuracy and execution of the map; noted its utility both for “foreigners” and “natives of the soil”; asserted that “there are among us but few individuals, not excepting those of the most respectable acquirements, who are not better acquainted with the geography of Europe, and even of some parts of Africa, than they are with that of the United States”; claimed that “Were a map of this description hung up in the hall of every family of our country, able to afford it, the children of the people of the United States would become geographers by instinct”; observed that “Kimber’s map being, in the true sense of the word, a national work, creditable to the country, and finished after six years of labour and trouble, and at an expense that must have been seriously felt by the resources of an individual, it is hoped that it will be received under national patronage”; and concluded that, although not “free from errors and defects,” those faults “are so few and inconsiderable that a detailed notice of them might justly be deemed hypercritical and superfluous” (A New and Correct Map of the United States, published by Emmor Kimber, Philadelphia, price 22 dollars [Philadelphia, 1816, copy in MWA]; reprinted from Port Folio, 3d ser., 6 [1815]: 304–8).