Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Emerick, Josiah D. 1846 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Josiah D. Emerick, of Wichita, Kan., was born in Fulton county, Ohio, on
September 16, 1846. His parents were James P. and Mary A. (Humphrey) Emerick,
both natives of New York state. One the paternal side the ancestry of the family
is traced to Germany. On the maternal side one of the ancestors came over in the
Mayflower, while the mother's grandfather's father served in the Revolutionary
War. Josiah D. Emerick served as a soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted in 1863
in Company K, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and received a wound in the
battle of Entory Creek from which he has never entirely recovered. After his
discharge he returned to his home in Fulton county, Ohio, and in 1870 he came to
Kansas and located in Wichita. After a short residence there he homesteaded 160
acres of land in what is now Section 10, Kechi township, which he afterward sold
and bought 160 acres in Section 5 of the same township, which he now owns and
has added forty acres to, all in Section 5. Mr. Emerick was married on March 14,
1878, to Miss Elizabeth E. Johnson, in Sedgwick county, Kansas. Four children
have been born of this union, viz.: J. Horner, born September 17, 1880; Robert
G., born November 27, 1884; Eliza M., born July 14, 1888, and Edson H., born
June 27, 1894. Mr. Emerick is a member of the G. A. R., of the Masonic order,
Valley Center Lodge, No. 364, and Consistory No. 2, Wichita. In politics he is a
Republican and active, in the interests of his party. He has served three years
as a trustee of Kechi township and has held other minor township offices.

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Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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