Lewis Emery, Jr.

• Residence: 1850 - Fayette, Hillsdale, Michigan
• Residence: 1860 - Hillsdale, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States
• Residence: 1870 - Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: 1880 - Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Bradford Ward 2, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: 1920 - Bradford Ward 2, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States
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Lewis Emery Jr

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• Birth: Aug 10 1839 - Cherry Creek, Chautauqua, New York, USA
• Death: Nov 19 1924 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Parents: Lewis Emery, Maria Emery (born Gilson)
• Wife: Essie Leta Emery (born Card) ????? NEED MORE RESEARCH!!!!
• Children: Lewis Emery III, Delevan S Emery, Earle Caldwell Emery, Grace Elizabeth Martin (born Emery), Clara Louise Emery
• Siblings: Maria Emery, David Emery, Clarissa Emery, Sarah Jane Lockwood (born Emery), Granger Gains Emery, Lewis Emery Jr, Oliver Gilson Emery

The Ancestry of Lewis is found here: Emery, pg. 616- 620 Ancestry of Lewis Emery Jr. Genealogical and personal history of northern Pennsylvania., v.2. Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-Published New York,Lewis historical publishing company,1913. It is abstracted in its entirety here because John Addison Biles thought this ancestry was correct, for John Addison Biles thought this ancestry was correct, perhaps based on it being documented on page 616 of Volume II of Northern Pennsylvania History. EMERY ANNEX - ELIZA (EMERY) KERRICK PEDIGREE whiich ties into descendants of Jacob Emery

pg. 616 EMERY

John Emery, son of John and Agnes Emery, of Romsey, Hauts, England, was born in England, September 29, 1598. He sailed from Southampton, April 3, 1635, with his brother Anthony in the ship “James” of London, William Cooper, master, their wives and one or two children each probably with them. He landed in Boston, June 3, 1635, and went soon after to Newbury, where John Sr. had a town grant of half an acre for a house lot. John Emery was fined December 22, 1637, by the town, twenty shillings for enclosing ground not laid out, or owned by the town, contrary to a town order, and on February 1, 1638, the town granted him that part of ground which was already enclosed. He was made freeman June 2, 1641, and recorded as one of the ninety- one freeholders of the town December 2, 1642; in the same year he was appointed, with three others, to make a valuation of all the property in the town, for the purpose of proportioning each man’s share in the new division.

On March 16, 1663, John Emery was “presented to the Court at Ipswich by Henry Jaques, con- stable of Newbury, for entertaining travelers and Quakers. May 5th, 1663, his presentment for entertaining Quakers was referred unto next Court.” The next court fined him four pounds, costs and fees for entertaining strangers.

The evidence given in the case was: “yt two men Quakers wr entertained very kindly to bed and table and John Emmerie shok ym by ye hand and bid ym welcome.”

Also, that the witness heard John Emery and his wife say that he had entertained Quakers and that he would not put them from his house and used argument for the lawfulness of it. John Emery in May, 1663, petitioned the general court for the remission of his fine. His petition was signed by the selectmen of the town and fifty of the citizens. The fine was not remitted. He was also prominent in the case of Lieutenant Robert Pike, refusing to recognize the authority of the court to deprive him and his neighbors of the right of petition

In the famous ecclesiastical difficulties John Emery was a member of the Woodmen party. April 10, 1644, he had a grant from the town of twenty-two acres and five rods being his own and Henry Palmer’s portion of dividends, land in the great field beyond the new town. He was select man, 1661; fence viewer, 1666;

{pg 617 } grand juryman in the same year; jury of trials, 1672; appointed to carry votes to Salem in 1676.

He married (first) in England, Mary , who died in Newbury. April, 1649.

He married (second) Mrs. Mary Webster (nee Shatswell), widow of John \\’ebster, of Ipswich, October 29, 1650.

He died in Newbury, Mas sachusetts, November 3, 1683. His wife died April 28, 1694. He made his will May 1, 1680, proved November 27, 1683, in which he mentions his age as eighty-three years. The inventory of his estate was taken the same day, amounting to two hundred and sixty-three pounds, eleven shillings.

His wife made her will August, 1693, and proved June 11, 1696. Children:

1. John (2), born in England about 1628;
2. Ann, born in England about 1631;
3. Ebenezer, born in Newbury, September 16, 1648;
4. Johnathan, mentioned below. (II_)

Johnathan, son of John and Mary (Shatswell-Webster) Emery, was born in Newbury, May 13, 1652.

He was made free man. April 19, 1691. He was pressed at New- bury, December 3, 1675, as a soldier for King Philip’s war and was at the great Narragansett fight. December 19, 1675, and was wound ed in the shoulder.

His will was made February 6, 1722-23, proved October 7, 1723. Amount of inventory, two hundred and two pounds, two shillings, ten pence.

He died in Newbury, September 29, 1723. His wife died September 13, 1723.

He married, November 29, 1676, Mary Woodman, daughter of Mr. Edward Woodman. Children:

1. Mary, born September 25, 1677; John, born 1678;
2. Johnathan, born February 2, 1680;
3. David, born September 28, 1682;
4. Anthony, born Novem ber 13, 1684;
5. Stephen, born January 13, 1687, died December 19, 1688;
6. Sarah, born Decem ber 18, 1688;
7. Stephen, born July 24, 1693;
8. Edward, born November 10, 1694;
9. James, mentioned below. (III)

James, son of Johnathan and Mary (Woodman) Emery, was baptized April 10, 1698.

He was a farmer and lived in Haverhill until about 1725, when he moved to Dra cut, Massachusetts.

The record of baptism of James Emery is from records of the First Church of Newbury. The records of birth and death of himself and wife are not known. He was probably born in Newbury, early in 1698. It is probable that she was born in Haverhill and that she died at Dracut.

He died in Dracut before April 4, 1763, having made his will May 3, 1762, at which time he stated that he was “now enlisted a soldier in his majesty’s service.” On March 30, 1757, he presented a petition to the general court of Massachusetts, in which he stated that his son Ambrose, a minor, enlisted himself in his majesty’s service in the expedition carrying on against Crown Point, in the year 1756, under the command of Captain Butterfield, and after he was discharged at Lake George, as he was returning home, he was taken sick at Glasgo, and not able to travel; “and when tidings thereof was brought to your petitioner, he sent a man and horse to fetch his son home, which occasioned considerable charge to your petitioner, according to the account herewith exhibited.” He asked that he be remunerated. He was given three pounds, nine shillings and eight pence.

He married, in Haverhill, December 10, 1719, Ruth Watson, of Haverhill. Children:

1. David, born October 1. 1720, in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
2. Johnathan, born November 23, 1722, at Haverhill, Massachu setts.
3. Ezekiel, born July 6, 1724, at Haverhill, Massachusetts.
4. Anthony, mentioned below.
5. James, born at Dracut, Massachusetts, 17—.
6. Moses, is said to have followed the sea as captain of a vessel.
7. Mary. was living May 4, 1792, in Dracut; she never married.
8. John, born 1736, in Dracut; soldier in the French war; enlisted in Captain William Peabody’s company, Colonel Ichabod Plaisted’s regiment; killed in battle with Indians, near Fort William Henry, September 18, 1756.
9. Ambrose, born February 25, 1738, at Dracut.
10. Edward, born July 26, 1741, at Dracut.
11. Nathaniel, born March 8, 1743, at Dracut.

(IV) Anthony, son of James and Ruth (Watson) Emery, born probably at Dracut, Massachusetts, in 1726.

He was living in Dracut, February 11, 1760, and in Conway, New Hampshire, March 21, 1771, and was there as late as April 24, 1789. He was a farmer.

He married and had the following children:

1. Samuel, mentioned below;
2. John,
3. James,
4. Naomi.

(V) Samuel, son of Anthony Emery, was born in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1775, died in 1855. He removed from New Hamp shire to Canada, near Fort Erie; he was captured in 1814 for furnishing supplies to the American army and lodged in Fort Erie, from which he escaped in a rowboat under fire from the fort. Later, with his family, he settled at

Pg. 618 Sodus Point, on Lake Ontario, then removed to Ohio, where he died.

He married Sallie Densmon, who died in 1857. Children:

1. Ebenezer, born about 1797, at Conway, New Hampshire;
2. Elsie, born about 1799, at Conway, New Hampshire;
3. Sallie, born about 1801, at Con- way, New Hampshire;
4. Gilbert, born about 1804, at Conway, New Hampshire;
5. Lewis, mentioned below;
6. Sophie, born about 1809, in Canada;
7. John, born 1811, in Canada.

(VI) Lewis, son of Samuel and Sallie (Densmon) Emery, was born July 4, 1806, at Conway, New Hampshire. with his father, in 1817, he removed to Ohio, and was  apprenticed to a woolen manufacturer and learned the trade.

He returned to Sodus Point, New York, and after his marriage settled in Junius, New York; removed to Alloway, Wayne county, New York, in 1829; to Villanova, Chautauqua county, New York, in 1832, and afterwards to Cherry Creek.
He followed his trade from 1826 to 1840, when he contracted to build several miles of the Erie railroad, and in 1841 he built two miles of the Erie Canal, and in both instances failed to get his pay; later he removed to Michigan and established a woolen manufactory at Jonesville, Hillsdale county, and carried on a large and profitable business.

In 1848 he built a second factory and bought a large farm near Hillsdale. In 1864 he sold his factory and his farm and settled in Hillsdale, where he died. August 21, 1886.

He married, in Lyons, New York, November 28, 1826, Maria Gilson, born February 2, 1809. Children:

1. Sarah Jane, born December 12, 1827, in Junius, New York. married Wesley Lockwood, died in 1853;
2. Clarissa, born August 22, 1829, in Junius, New York, died 1835;
3. Maria, born September 25. 1831, in Allo way, New York, died 1853, Hillsdale, Michi- gan;
4. Granger D., born in Villanova, Chautauqua county, New York, July 22, 1833, died- 1847; Oliver G., born in Villanova, Chau- tauqua county, New York, August 22, 1835;
5. David, born in Cherry Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, September 7, 1837;
6. Lewis Jr., mentioned below.

(VII) Hon. Lewis Emery Jr., son of Lewis and Maria (Gilson) Emery, was born in Cherry Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, August 10, 1839, and is now in a vigorous, hale condition of health.

His youth was spent in Michigan with his family. There he served an apprenticeship in a woolen mill and at nine- teen was a teacher in a county school; later, with his father, he owned a flour mill. In 1864, he moved to Illinois, where he tried saw- milling and country storekeeping.

The effects of the war was too much for young Emery, and he came east to Pennsylvania, where he tried the oil fields. He did not make his strike at once, but worked for weary years before fortune smiled. When the Bradford fields were opened and he came through his vicissitudes with a fortune and manhood enough to be satisfied with nothing but honesty of the strictest sort.

Lewis Emery Jr. has behind him as interesting a public career as the ever-turbulent political conditions within the Keystone State have ever created. From every one of his battles he has come forth with a stainless record and upon him honors rest easily. Politically, he has been a fighter. The cause of the people has been his cause, and for it he has waged bitter war whenever he considered it endangered.

It is a fact too little known that Mr. Emery was among the first. if not indeed the very first, man in America to move against the discrimination in railroad rates, the issue whose recent national prominence forced the passage in congress of a bill that even President Roosevelt considered adequate. 

Mr. Emery’s move against the railroads had its inception in 1872, thirty-seven years ago, but the first interstate commerce law, which grew from his work, was not passed by congress until 1885. In 1872

Mr. Emery was  a member of the Oil Producers’ Association, made up of a group of oil operators of Northwestern Pennsylvania, banded together to resist the growing power of the Standard Oil. It is stated that had the leaders of this association cared collectively or individually to enter into the  operations of the Standard, as it was current rumor at the time they were invited to do, every one of them would now count his for- tune in  multi-millions. Like the others, Mr. Emery resisted the temptation of gold and persisted in the fight. In consequence of this he is today only a comparatively wealthy man, instead of a prince of money. It was Mr. Emery who suggested to his fellow members of the association that they fight in congress itself the unjust discriminations which they had discovered a short time before the railroads were granting the even then huge corporation, the rival of them all. A bill, drawn by G. H. Hibbard, was the outcome of Mr. Emery’s efforts then. He, himself, was

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the moving spirit on the committee by which the bill was drawn, and he was instrumental in having Congressman J. H. Hopkins, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. present it on the floor of the lower house. Defeat met this bill. Every session the fight was renewed and each time Mr. Emery was in the forefront of those fighting for the small producer. The bill was introduced successively as the Hopkins bill, the Watson bill and the Reagan bill, and under this last name it was passed, or rather made the basis for the interstate commerce law. Passage came in 1885. Given to boasting not at all, and through himself furnishing a standard for modesty among men in public life, Mr. Emery himself has never told of his foremost part in the fight against railroad discrimination. But during the recent agitation in Washington, the scene of Mr. Emery’s labors in behalf of the measure, when senators were fighting tooth and nail to find a solution to the riddle of railroad rates, the old-time bill was called to mind, as well as the agitation which finally led to the passage of the interstate commerce law, and the men to whom the passage of this law was due. It was then that Mr. Emery got a small share of the credit that was due him.

It is as a fighter that Mr. Emery is best known. He was compelled to fight for business existence, and nothing but political battles has he had during his long public life. His fights were always in the open, and his cause was always one well able to stand the light of day. One of his prominent traits is consistency, both publicly and privately. Whenever or wherever there is a fight being made for honesty, there is Mr. Emery in the forefront. There has never been any doubt as to where he will stand on any public question.

It is as a member of the state legislature of Pennsylvania that he is best known to the peo ple of his state. Mr. Emery was first elected to the lower branch in 1878 and served continuously either in the house or the senate until 1889. During that period the member from .McKean always had a fight on his hands, of some kind or other, and to his credit it can he said that few of them were losing struggles. Graft in any shape was his enemy, and favor- asking corporations found the hardy champion against them at all stages. Harrisburg. even then, was the ideal place for such a fighter to find fights. There was a great deal of legislation always to the front of that sort that earned Mr. Emery’s enmity there, and there was no time during his career at the capitol that his services as a fighter were not needed. In his first session, Mr. Emery had one of the fiercest fights he ever had. In this fight political wisdom was no more necessary than fisticalability. The Pennsylvania railroad, just emerging from the riots at Pittsburgh, considerably be- hind the game financially, and suffering in spirit from the blows of the strikers, presented a bill at the legislature of 1879 asking that the commonwealth pay the railroad $4,000,000 for the damage done during the strike. There was already a law on the statute books directing the county in such a case to pay the damage losses. The oil delegation, a strong factor in those days, with Mr. Emery at its head, op- posed this measure from the start. In order to whip them into line the element favoring the railroad presented the bill providing for a tax of fifty cents on every barrel of oil. This bill failed as a club, for Mr. Emery, with three or four sturdy natures of his kind, placed their backs to the legislative wall and fought with might and main against the railroad measure. The efforts of the powers in politics in those days to pass the “Pittsburgh Riot Bill,” as the railroad measure was called, instigated one of the first investigations that the legislature of Pennsylvania ever had. It was given rise to by Mr. Emery, who heard the then state treasurer, William H. Kemble, offer $1,000 for a vote favoring the bill, and $1,500 for a vote and speech in favor of it. He himself received letters and in other ways his support of the bill was solicited. Due to the efforts on the part of Mr. Emery, the house ordered an investigation, and the noise of the scandal reached far and wide. The committee appoint ed to investigate held its sessions in the capitol at night. Members of the legislature were called in alphabetical order, making Mr. Emery appear early in the sessions of the committee. Carrying a big sheaf of papers in his hand, the “gentleman from McKean” faced the inquisitors. But the papers had attracted the attention of interested persons in the crowd about the room, and it was decided in a moment that those papers were needed by others than l\Ir. Emery. A senator insulted Mr. Emery as soon as he was sworn. Goaded, Mr. Emery replied, whereu} on his insulter struck at him viciously. In a moment that committee forgot dignity and every legislator got into the fight. \\-'hen the fight was hottest

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state of Pennsylvania. some one turned off the lights. It occurred to Mr. Emery that his papers were wanted, but he was altogether too much occupied to place them in his pocket. After the darkness came and the huddled crowd of fighters made for the door, the papers were not in his hand. When the crowd had dispersed l\Ir. Emery determined to get his papers if possible. Wait ing until quiet reigned everywhere about, he procured a big plank, placing one end at the committee room window and crawled up. Once inside the papers were found strewn upon the floor. The trial and sentence of Kemble later were due in a measure to these papers. The Riot Bill was finally defeated by the opposition led by Mr. Emery, and the riot claifns were settled by Allegheny county. Many other fights were led by Mr. Emery at Harrisburg. Since his retirement from the senate in 1889 his principal work has been in the reformation of the Republican party in the He aided greatly in the election of former State Treasurer Berry, and has since its formation been prominent in the ranks of the Lincoln Republican party.

In 1906 Mr. Emery was nominated by the Lincoln Republican party, endorsed by the Democrats, as its candidate for the governor ship of Pennsylvania. He made a strong run in that very exciting and closely contested campaign, and was defeated with a small ma jority by Edwin S. Stuart, the regular Republican candidate.

He married, December 29, 1863. Elizabeth A. Caldwell. Children, born in Bradford:

1. Clara Louise, born July 20, 1865, died August 12, 1866;
2. Delevan, born September 26, 1867;
3. Grace Elizabeth, born January 27. 1874;
4. Earl Caldwell, born December 12, 1875;

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While simplicity marked the funeral services and burial, Saturday afternoon, of the late Lewis Emery, jr.the entire city joined In mourning the loss of its most distinguished citizen was the result was a somber display never before witnessed here.

With Main street lined with flags half mast, all stores and business where closed, with curtains drawn, while people lined both sides of the street, the funeral procession wended s way from the Congress street home, along Main street, to Bast Main and to Oak Hill cemetery where the earthly remains of the pioneerwere laid in their perennial resting place — in the Emery mausoleum.

The brief commitment service of the Presbyterian church was read by the Rev. F. Dean Miller, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of which Mr. Emery had been a, member.

At 3 o'clock, when services at the cemetery had concluded, the stores reopened for business and the city resumed its normal life, having paid its last tribute t«o Lewis Emery, jr., by one hour of complete suspension of business.

At the Congress street home, the Presbyterian form of funeral service, without elegy, was read by the Rev. Mr.Miller. It consisted of the reading of a psalm, prayer Scripture lesson, the quotation "Waiting" by Burroughs, and benediction. The house was crowded with relatives and friends of the deceased, including employes of the Emery interests, many of whom had been in the employ of Mr. Emery for the past 30 to 40 years.

Heads of the various departments of the Emery interests acted as honor,rary pall bearers. They are E. E.Bryner, C .W. Boring, W. A. McCafferty, E. B. Bryner, George J. Reidy and Alex Lackman. Active pall bearers were James Speckernaglo Charles Rowe, Edward Toungberg. Charles Benson, Amil Sandeen and Roy Bryner, employes of the Emery Manufacturing company and of the Minard Run Oil company.

Among relatives and friends who came to Bradford to attend the obsequies, were: Dr. and Mrs. Frank Forrest and Miss Alice Card of Port Hope, Ont; Mrs. Josephine Combs, Hugh King, Charles Rathbone, James Amm, New York; J. S. Bonner of Middileton, N. Y.; Mrs. L.A. Brenneman, Miss Vorna Brenneman of Pittsburgh; J. B. LeCompte, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. G. Ellsworth Green. Lockport, N. Y.; Miss Stradling of Philadelphia; Mrs. J. T. Jones of Buffalo; Harry Hyde of Ridgway; E. It. Benson of Mt. Jewctt; George W. Mitchell and Mrs. E. J. Lobdell of On away, Mich., t he former identified with the American Wood Rim Co.; Dr. Joseph Mauck, president of Hillsdale college, Hillsdale, Mich., representing his college. B. M. Bailey and "William Bailey of Jamestown; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. L.ain of Bolivar, N. T.; Fred Groves of Orange, Is. J.; S. Y. Ramago of Oil City; John Caldwell, Titusvilie; Arthus Henry. Eldrerl: Lewis Wals of Oil City; Hon. S. W. Smith of Port Allegany.

Messages of condolance were received by the berieved family from all parts of the United States and frqm many foreign countries. Many were from men of note, including Fernando C. Fuchs, minister of finance, of Peru, South America; Joseph Seep, J. McKinney, Titusvilie; Governor Gifford Pincliot. of Pennsylvania; Ex-Governor Edwin Stewart of Pennsylvania; Ex-Governor William Sulzer of,New York State; George H. Burrel, manager of the Bowman Hotel company, New York; George A. Bowman of the B. R. & P . railroad; H. C. Shepard of the National City bank of New York; Senator Herman P. Miller. Harrisburg; Ex-Senator Vivian Gable, Tyone Petroleum company. - THE BRADFORD ERA, 11-24-1924, pg 4

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