Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Emmons, John D. June 30 1853 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JOHN D. EMMONS, the leading merchant of Williams' Stations, and a
representative citizen of Escambia county, is a native of Alabama, born in the
county of Conecuh, June 30, 1853. His grandfather was William Emmons, a native
of Philadelphia, Penn., and an early resident of Georgia, to which state he
emigrated when a young man, thence later changed his residence to Escambia
county, where his death occurred. Jesse Emmons, father of John D., was born in
Sumter county, Ga., August 26, 1817. He was a farmer and stock raiser, served in
the Creek war, and, as a union democrat, opposed secession, and refused to
countenance the institution of slavery. In the month of August, 1847, he married
Ellen C. Stanton, who bore him three children: Caroline E., wife of H. H. Brown;
Clarissa A., wife of N. W. Nicholson, and John D. Emmons. The first named of
these children died of yellow fever at Flomaton in the year 1873. The father
moved to Escambia county, Fla., in. 1856, and lived there until February, 1887,
when he moved to Williams’ Station, Escambia county, Ala., where he died the
following December. John D. Emmons grew to manhood in Escambia county, Fla.,
attended the country schools at intervals while attaining his majority, and
then, in partnership with his father, became interested in the stock business.
He did not leave home until his twenty-eighth year, at which time he was married
in Powellton, Fla., February 2, 1881, to Margaret E. Henderson, and three years
after followed the stock business by himself until 1886. In that year he changed
his residence to Williams' Station and embarked in the mercantile trade, which
he has since successfully carried on, owning, at this time, the largest store in
the place, his stock representing a value of over $3,000. Mr. Emmons was honored
in 1884 by being chosen representative from Escambia county, Fla., to the
general assembly, and while a member of that body made a creditable record as an
efficient and judicious legislator. He was elected as a democrat when the county
was strongly republican, and such was his popularity that he ran far ahead of
his ticket, receiving ten more votes than the successful candidate for governor,
and over 100 above the ticket in the previous presidential contest. Mr. Emmons
is an intelligent and progressive citizen, a competent business man, and stands
high in the estimation of the people of his community and throughout the entire
county. He is a prominent factor in the farmers' alliance movement in the
southern part of Alabama, and holds an official position in the Methodist
church, with which he has been connected for a number of years. Mr. Emmons's
first wife died about one year after marriage, and on the 26th day of February,
1885, in Butler county, Ala., he wedded Miss Mattie J. Huggins, who has borne
him three children: Grover Cleveland, Jesse Eugene and John Jefferson. Mrs.
Emmons is the daughter of Rev. Jefferson B. Huggins, a native of South Carolina,
and for many years a minister of the Methodist church. He died in 1872. His
father was William Huggins, who came to the United States from Ireland and
settled in South Carolina.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 963-964
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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