Jackson County IA Archives Biographies.....Emerson, N. N. 
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Source: Jackson Sentinel
Author: Jackson Sentinel

The Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, July 11, 1901

N. N. EMERSON-

N. N. Emerson, a former attorney at law in Maquoketa, but now following his 
profession in Rock Island, was in town Saturday and Sunday to visit old 
acquaintances. Since leaving Maquoketa, Mr. Emerson has had 18 months  of 
lively experience as a volunteer in the war in the Phillipine Islands. He 
passed through ten active engagements and a whole lot of rabbit chasing, and 
evidently had to endure about as great hardships as any of the soldiers there. 
His regiment was in the wilds of southern Luzon most of the time. He saw the 
natives as they are before the enlightenment of civilization reaches them and 
he found places where white men had never been before in some of the regions 
penetrated by his company. However, when given a chance to learn, he observed 
that the Phillipinos improved rapidly. Mr. Emerson thinks the island may be 
worth the $20,000,000 paid for them, but not the tremendous cost of the war.


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