Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and its People, Vol. III by Alvah L. Sawyer Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago - 1911 [1102-1104] HARRY TUELL EMERSON is numbered among the representative men and popular citizens of Menominee, where he was for eighteen years mana- ger of the S. M. Stephenson Hotel and where he is now engaged in the plumbing business, in connection with which he handles all kinds of mining and heating supplies. He is a scion in both the paternal and maternal line of families founded in New England in the colonial epoch of our national history, and he finds no small degree of satis- faction in reverting to the great metropolis of the west as the place of his nativity. He was born in the city of Chicago on the 28th of February, 1861, is the son of OZIAS P. and WATY B. (KEEN) EMERSON, the former of whom was born in Hebron, New Hampshire, on the 13th of September, 1825, and the latter near South Paris, Maine, on the 3d of September, 1823; their marriage was solemnized at Lowell, Massachu- setts, in 1852, and they became the parents of three children: FLORENCE, who is the widow of C. 0. OWEN and resides in Chicago; FRANK, who is also a resident of Chicago; and HARRY T., the immediate subject of this sketch. OZIAS PETTENGILL EMERSON was reared and educated in his native state and when fifteen years of age he found employment in a cotton mill at Lynn, Massachusetts. He was one of the venturesome spirits who joined the memorable exodus to the gold fields of California in 1849. He went by sailing vessel to Point Isabel, Texas, from which point he made his way overland to California, where he remained about four years, engaged in mining. He then returned to his home in Massa- chusetts, where his marriage was solemnized in 1852. Soon afterward he removed with his bride to Boone county, Illinois, where he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Later on he engaged in the general merchandise business at Belvidere, that state, where he remained until 1860, when he removed with his family to Chicago and established him self in the produce commission business. He became one of the most prominent and successful representatives of this line of enterprise in the western metropolis and continued to be identi- fied therewith until 1897, since which time he lived virtually retired in Chicago. He was a member of the California Pioneers' Association of that state, and a stanch Republican in his political proclivities. He died June 4, 1910, in Chicago and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery on June 6, the anniversary of his wedding day. HARRY T. EMERSON was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the city of Chicago, and after the completion of the curriculum of the high school he secured a position as timekeeper and assistant book keeper in the establishment of the Union Brass Manufacturing Company, in that city. Later he became associated with his father in the produce commission business, with which he was thus identified about two years, at the expiration of which he became credit man and book keeper for the firm of H. W. Austin & Company of Chicago. About two years later he again associated himself with his father in the produce commission business, in which he continued until 1890, when he came to Menominee, Michigan, as manager of the S. M. Stephenson Hotel, which was erected and owned by his father-in-law, the late SAMUEL M. STEPHENSOn, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. He remained incumbent of this position until August 1, 1908. when he engaged in the plumbing and heating supply business and also in the handling of all kinds of mining supplies. Within the short intervening period, he has brought this enterprise to unmis- takable priority as the most extensive of its kind on the Menominee river. MR. EMERSON has thoroughly identified himself with the civic and business interests of Menominee and as a citizen is essentially loyal, progressive and public-spirited. He maintains a secure place in popular confidence and regard, and he and his wife are prominent figures in the best social life of the community. In politics he accords allegiance to the Republican party. He was a member of the city council for six years, 1902-1908, and in April, 1910, was elected mayor of Menominee. MR. EMERSON is an appreciated member of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations are briefly noted: Menominee Lodge, No. 269, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is master at the time of this writing, in 1910; Menominee Chapter, No. 107, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest; Menominee Commandery, No. 35, Knights Templar, of which he is past commander, an office of which he was incumbent for three terms; Ahmed Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Marquette, Michigan, of which he is potentate; DeWitt Clinton Consis- tory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. On the 9th of November, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of MR. EMERSON to MISS ELIZABETH W. STEPHENSON, the daughter of HON. SAMUEL M. STEPHENSON, one of the most distinguished men of the Upper Penin- sula, and one to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. The only child of this marriage is a daughter, GLENNE S. ==========================================================================