Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

H. W. EMERY, lumber merchant, Lockport; the subject of this sketch was born in Ellsworth, 
Hancock Co., Maine, Dec. 18, 1821; at the age of 21, he left home and went to Boston, 
Mass., where he engaged in the trade of house carpentering; in 1846, returned to Maine,
and back again to Boston in 1849; in, April, 1849, be went to California, and engaged 
one year in mining; he next settled in Oregon City, where he engaged in house building; 
in 1854, returned to Boston, and in 1855, came West to Illinois, and settled in Lockport; 
in 1860, he opened a lumber yard, and has continued the business ever since. He was 
married in 1860 to Sarah P. BARTLETT, a native of Maine; she died without issue. 
Republican; Congregationalist. Mr. EMERY is a member of the City Council; he is 
highly esteemed as a man for his many good qualities, and is strictly upright and 
honest in all his business transactions.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.