BIO:  Martin 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, Dover Township, Pg 95

MARTIN EMIG was born in Dover Township March 29, 1840, and is the eldest of the 
seven children born to George B. and Anna M. (Ziegler) Emig.  The father was born 
in 1814, was a miller, and for ten years operated the Emig Mill on Conewago 
Creek, and also managed the mill on the Little Conewago for six years; he was 
also engaged for fifteen years in mercantile pursuits.  He died in 1876, the 
owner of 150 acres of land along the Conewago and also a large grist and saw-
mill.  In 1877 our subject bought the mill, and has been doing a successful 
business ever since.  In 1865 he married Susan Swartz, a daughter of Charles 
Swartz and native of Washington Township, and to this union have been born two 
children:  Elizabeth J. and George E.  Henry Emig, brother of Martin Emig, was 
born August 12, 1848.  At his father’s death he purchased the old homestead of 
120 acres of improved land, which he has ever since cultivated.  In 1880 he 
entered the mercantile business.  In 1878 he married Clarissa Julius, daughter of 
John Julius, of Dover Township.