[p. 402] owner of seventy-seven acres of land about three miles west of Mt. Jackson on the Springfield road, in North Beaver Township, comes of a well known pioneer family of Lawrence County. He was born in Pittsburg, Pa., December 24, 1862, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Wakenfield) Emery.
Daniel Emery, the father, was born on what is now known as the John McCurley farm in North Beaver Township, his father being an early settler and a large land owner. He was reared in his native township and early in life learned the trade of a shoemaker. He also worked on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers some years, and in 1849 went to California by the overland route. He remained there two or three years, and made the return trip by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He moved to Pittsburg and became an iron worker, being employed some years as a nail plate heater. He later returned to North Beaver Township, Lawrence County, where he became the owner of a tract of land now owned by his son, Augustus. Except for a period of eight or nine years in Indiana, he remained there the remainder of his life, dying in the fall of 1902, surviving his wife several years. They were the parents of five children, as follows: Mary, deceased, wife of Amos Myers; Daniel W., of Youngstown, O.; William E., Harry W. and Augustus.
William E. Emery was a baby at the time of his parents' return to North Beaver from Pittsburg, and was taken by them to Indiana several years later. He was about, thirteen years of age when they again returned to North Beaver Township, and there he has since lived. He received a good common school education, and at an early age began farming operations. In partnership with his brother, Daniel W., he conducted a threshing outfit and operated a sawmill for some fourteen years. He moved to his present farm in 1903, and engages in general farming with good results.
Mr. Emery was united in marriage with Miss Mary Pitts, a daughter of Jacob Pitts, and they have one son, Harry E. Fraternally, he is a member of Petersburg Lodge, K. of P., and has passed through all the chairs of that lodge. Religiously, he and his wife are faithful members of the Westfield Presbyterian Church.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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