BIO:  Henry W. EMIG, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 77

HENRY W. EMIG, a prominent young farmer, was born in Hellam Township January 20, 
1849.  His parents were Eli and Magdalena (Crider) Emig, of York and Lancaster 
Counties respectively, and of German descent, and parents of ten children, of 
whom Henry W. is the second.  He was reared on the farm and educated at the 
public schools.  At the age of twenty-two he began farming for himself on the 
place which he now owns and occupies.  His father, who died in 1877, aged fifty-
eight years, owned six large farms at the time of his death; his mother still 
lives in Hellam Township, aged about sixty-two years.  Three sisters and four 
brothers reside in York County, the latter engaged in farming.  The farm upon 
which Mr. Emig resides, was purchased by him in October, 1883; besides this, he 
owns five farms, which came from his father.  He is much interested in 
educational matters and public improvements, and like the family, belongs to the 
Reformed Church.