Biographies:  Emmet HORAN, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Emmet Horan, a prominent citizen of Eau Claire, has for many years been 
actively identified with the business, political and educational interests 
of the city...and came to Eau Claire with his parents in 1863.  He was reared 
on the farm, educated in the public schools and later entered the employ of 
the Eau Claire Lumber Company.  His ability to handle men and the faculty he 
exhibited in attending to the details of the business secured for him the 
position of foreman of the logging camps of the company.  In 1885 he was 
appointed by president Cleveland register of the Unisted States Land Office 
in Eau Claire and held that position four and one-half years.  In 1884 he 
was a candidate for member of the assembly, but was defeared through the 
influence of an independent candiddate,  He has represented Eau Claire at 
various times as member of the city council, and was for four years a member 
of the county board of supervisors.  In 1889 he became a member of the 
McDonough Manufacturing Company, of Eau Claire; was one of its incorporators, 
and was made secretary and treasurer. He continued in that position until 
1912, and is still a member of the company.  He served as secretary of the 
Eau Claire board of trade for several years, and since 1891 has been a member 
of the Eau Claire school board and was the first president of the Eau Claire 
training school board.

During President Cleveland's second administration he was appointed postmaster 
of Eau Claire and served in that capacity four a half years.  He was appointed 
a member of the state board of normal school regents in 1908, and has served 
in that capacity continuously since, and was a leading factor in securing the 
location for the Normal School at Eau Claire, now (1914) in course of 
construction, the state having made an appropriation of $225,000 for this 
purpose, and he is now a member of the executive committee of the state board 
of normal school regents...He is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 
and served as state president of the same for a period of four years.  He is 
also a member of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, of which he was vice-
president six years.  Politically he is a Democrat of the progressive type.

--Transcribed from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 734-735.