Biography

09/07/1837 - 01/23/1891

EMERY, David, a Representative from Crawford County; born, September 7, 1837 in Chautauqua County, NY; attended, Hillsdale College; captain, Company B, 15th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard; engaged, milling; president, Octave Oil Company; elected, mayor, Titusville (1876); elected, common council, Titusville (1877); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1879 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1881 term; president, Oil Creek Valley Agricultural Society; died, January 23, 1891 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Interred, Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.