BIO:  David Emmitt, 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, York Borough, Pg 16

DAVID EMMITT has for over half a century been identified with the business 
interests of York.  He was born in York, January 27, 1819, and is a son of Jacob 
and Lydia (Ilgenfritz) Emmitt, of Irish and German descent.  His father, who was 
a relative of Robert Emmitt, of Ireland, was one of the early men of York, and a 
soldier of the war of 1812, belonging to the "Independent Blues," a company of 
200 men, of Baltimore.  He was an active and respected citizen, and a resident 
of York until his death in 1865.  The subject of this sketch received a good 
education, having the advantage of the schools of York and the York County 
Academy.  He early learned the trade of carpenter, and followed that occupation 
from 1836 to 1849, when he embarked in the grocery business, on the corner of 
Beaver and Philadelphia Streets, at which he has since been successfully 
engaged.  Mr. Emmitt is a charter member of the Mt. Zion Lodge, No. 74, I. O. O. 
F., and a man who has done much to develop the moral interests of his native 
town.  He has been identified for more than thirty-five years with St. Paul's 
Lutheran Church, and over thirty years as a member of the church council.  He 
has been an active member and a liberal giver for all projects of true moral 
worth.  In 1847 he was married to Miss Mary E. Rauss, daughter of Luke and Mary 
L. (Beitzel) Rauss.  She was born in York, July 22, 1822, and is a descendant of 
the families that have been long identified with the history of York County.