Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Emlay, Eli May 4, 1829 - November 23, 1907
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E[li] Emlay.  The subject of this sketch was born in Hamburg, Canada, West, May 
4, 1829.  At the age of eighteen years he went to Detroit, Michigan, and there 
learned the harness-maker's trade, and finished the education commenced in 
Canada, by attending night-school.  After a residence in Detroit of seven 
years, where he labored zealously at every intricacy of his art, he moved to 
Jackson, in the same State, for one year, and thence to California around The 
Horn, arriving in San Francisco, October, 1852.  To be idle in those stirring 
days was a thing unheard of.  Mr. Emlay therefore was not to be behindhand.  He 
started at once for Sacramento, the haven of many eager travelers; thence to 
Marysville where he could find no work at his trade, and finally to the mines 
near Shasta City where he remained for six months.  We next find him working 
for his board at Marysville; again at Martinez, Contra Costa county, still 
indefatigably toiling at his calling for two years; thence to Alvarado, Alameda 
county, where he remained until 1869 having started a harness store with a 
capital of one hundred and fifty dollars and closing out with twelve thousand; 
and finally settled in Gilroy, where still true to his instincts, he bought 
outright the only harness store in the town, and still conducts it.  Married, 
July 3, 1859, Helen C., daughter of Captain E[benzer] Farley, by whom he has: 
Oliver L., Harry F. and Hattie (twins), Herbert E., Lulu, Nora, Josephine, Roy.

Additional Comments:
"History of Santa Clara County, California."  San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & 
Co., 1881. Page 606.

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