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​R. H. Emerson
Biography
R. H. EMERSON, a resident of East Norwalk, where he carries on a lucrative blacksmithing business, is a native of Vermont, born in 1827, a son of Thomas Emerson, also a native of the Green Mountain State.

The father of subject, who was a shoemaker by trade, came to Ohio in 1816, locating in Seneca county.  In 1826 he married Miss Sarah Glick, and then moved to Fremont, same State, where he resided till 1839, in which year the family came to Huron county, settling on a farm near Monroeville.  Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Emerson, viz.: Thomas E., Christian, Anna, Laurel, and R. H.

In Monroeville our subject remained till he was twenty-one years of age, when he went to Milan, Erie county, same State, and after two and one-half years' sojourn there came to Norwalk and engaged in blacksmithing, a trade he has followed there some forty years.  He also carries on a farm of twenty-five acres.  In 1864 he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth O. V. I., and served four months and nine days, on guard duty, after which he returned home, and for five years following was a sergeant in the State troops.  In 1850 Mr. Emerson married Miss Jane Cortright, of Norwalk, who bore him children as follows:  Sarah, wife of Nelson Bailey, of Townsend, Ohio; Louella Norman; Lewis, in Michigan; Laura Denman, of Townsend; Anna Sirls, of Lakeside, Ohio; Lilly, in Kansas; and Melinda, who died, in 1892, in Michigan.  The mother of these died in 1878, and for his second wife Mr. Emerson wedded Mrs. Sarah Bender, of Chicago Junction, by whom there is no issue.  Politically our subject is a Republican, and he is a member of the Methodist Church.

Source: Commemorative and Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. p. 168. 

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