Biography

03/22/1804 - 09/30/1857

EMMERT, David, a Representative from Cumberland County; born, March 22, 1804 in Emmertsville, Washington County, Md.; wheat teamster; farmer; elected as an Anti-Mason to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1834-1835 and 1835-1836 terms; proprietor, grist mill; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Cherry Grove, Il. (1840); judge, Carroll County, Il. (1850-1853); director, Savanna Branch Railroad Company (1851); proprietor, The Republican (1852); director, Mount Carroll Seminary; minister; died, September 30, 1857 in Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois; interred, Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois.