BIO:  George W. and Gilbert P. EMMERT, Huntington Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 457

GEORGE W. EMMERT & BRO., general merchants, York Springs.  This firm was 
established November 24, 1884, by George W. and Gilbert P. Emmert, sons of W. D. 
Emmert, one of the oldest merchants, if not the oldest, in Adams County, and who 
has been located for the past twenty-four years, as a general merchant, at New 
Oxford.  Both of the brothers were trained to business in their father’s store, 
and received the advantages of a good education at the schools of New Oxford.  
Bringing, as they did, the experience of years to their aid in establishing 
their present business, it at once became a success.  They carry on their 
shelves, the year round, an average stock worth from $8,000 to $9,000, and the 
sales average upward of $16,000 per annum.  This stock consists of everything 
that is generally kept in a first-class general store.

GEORGE W., was born September 7, 1853.  He was employed in this father’s store, 
at New Oxford, for fifteen consecutive years; was married May 13, 1884, to Alice 
R. Wortz, a daughter of David Wortz, a retired farmer of Hanover.  They have one 
child:  W. Roe.  Mr. Emmert is a member of the Methodist, and Mrs. Emmert of the 
Lutheran Church.

GILBERT P., was born August 19, 1858, and on leaving school had six years’ 
experience in his father’s store.  In 1880, he began to learn the trade of a 
hardwood finisher in the Ohio Falls car works, at Jeffersonville, Ind., where he 
remained nineteen months; was then employed in the shops of the Georgia Central 
Railroad, at Macon, Ga., and in 1884 accepted a position in the famous Pullman 
Palace Car Works, near Chicago, where he acted as foreman of the filling and 
finishing room at a salary of $900 per annum, having charge, on an average of 
from 140 to 150 men.  This position he resigned, to engage in his present 
business, the day before the presidential election of 1884.