Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Emery, Elmer P. 1855 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Elmer P. Emery, railroad man, of Mulvane, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born
in Sangamon county, Illinois, on July 3, 1855. He was a son of Thomas F. and
Mary (Plymell) Emery, both natives of Ohio, where the father was born July 10,
1814, and the mother May 13, 1817. Mr. Emery's parents were married in Illinois
in 1839 and resided there until 1871, when they traveled overland by wagon from
Decatur, Ill., to Wichita, Kan., arriving at the latter place in February, 1871.
(The elder Emery preempted 160 acres of land in Rockford township, Section 28,
where he lived until 1882, when he sold his farm and moved to Mulvane to live
with his son Elmer F., his wife having died on January 18, 1889. Mr. Emery, Sr.,
died March 9, 1893.) Elmer F. Emery came with his father to Kansas in 1871 and
worked on the farm until 1874, when his railroad career began. He went to
Colorado with the Denver & Rio Grande railroad as station agent at Walsenburg,
and remained there until 1878, when he was transferred to Mulvane, where he
opened a station September 15, 1879. His first office was in a box car, and in
this the business of the road was handled for a short time until its first
station was completed, a structure which is now used as a freight station. Mr.
Emery's office was in that building until 1909, when the railroad built its
present station. Mr. Emery has held his position in Mulvane thirty-one years. He
was married August 14, 1881, to Miss Fannie G. Parker, who was born in Chicago
February 11, 1858, a daughter of Cale H. and Mary Parker. Mr. and Mrs. Emery
have two children-Elizabeth M., born May 29, 1882, and Norma H., born June 8,
1889. The eldest daughter is a teacher in the Mulvane High School. Mr. Emery
served as the first clerk of Mulvane when it was incorporated. Fraternally he is
a member of the Masonic order, Mulvane Lodge, No. 201, A. F. and A. M., of which
he is past master; Wichita Chapter, No. 33, R. A. M.; Mount Olivet Commandery,
No. 12, and Wichita Council, No. 12. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen
of America. Mr. Emery is a Republican in politics.

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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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