John Fred Emery of Stratham, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by MLM, Volunteer 0000130. For the current email address, please go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000130 Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyright notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 Page 1296 JOHN FRED EMERY,* is one of the best known residents of the town of Stratham, where he is engaged in farming, and truck gardening. He has been active in the affairs of the community and in 1907 served as state rep- resentative. He is a native of Rockingham County, N. H., having been born in the town of Stratham, Augt1st 19, 1869, a son of John and Mary (Brew- ster) Emery. John Emery, the father, is still living on the home place, and although past eighty-one years of age is still active and takes an interest in the working of the farm, his son being in partnership with him. He is the pioneer truck gardener of this section, and remembers when he took strawberries to market at Portsmouth and sold them for seventy-five cents per box. He is a repub- lican in politics. His marriage with Mary Brewster resulted in the birth of but one child, John Fred. Her death occurred Febuary 6, 1896. John Fred Emery attended the public schools of his native town, and high school at Exeter, having graduated from the latter in the class of 1886. He then returned to the home farm and has since been in partnership with his father. He was tax collector four years, and also served a like period as selectman, being chairman of the board. When serving as representative he, together with Thomas Sheey of Newfields, fathered the bill, whereby the toll bridge between the two townships was enabled to be made a free bridge. The county assumed the ownership and the two townships took over the indebt- edness. The Emery farm consists of eighty acres, is improved with good substantial building, and is under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Emery was united in marriage with Miss Frances L. Stoddard, of Portsmouth, a daughter of George L. and Frances (Tate) Stoddard. Her father was a farmer. She is one of the following children: Mrs. Henry Jewett, Mrs. Walter Rand, Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Fred O. Green, Grace, Mrs. Edward P. Tracy, Frances L. (Emery), and Herbert. Mr. and Mrs. Emery have two children: John Lamson and Mary Louise. Religiously, they attend the Congregational Church. Mr. Emery is one of the most prominent mem- bers of the Improved Order of Red Men in the State of New Hampshire. He was Great Sachem of the order in the state, and four times has been rep- resentative to the Great Council, of the United States, and expects to go again at the Council to be held in Portland in the fall of 1914.